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ba Accordance with the DDO's notice of 9 Decenbei 1974,

I have -reviewed. the 201, file on TS) (surname) . i ; .
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ae . yada” GALS]; JAPAN PRAPARAS
7 a Lo ; : . By iHeansu Chan
‘ . eee There ere. numerous anertoan joursaliate of
" aifferent political color ang shodes of opinion. vho are ORE
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“sooperating” ia, thie, az git Je paises. imperialien, but

: ‘whoaver hes folloved: tho sritings of harold ‘Toaaen,. .

ites ape

Alexander vuchmaa, Freak aleso ‘and wlbur Burton in The
* Chine Press, ‘Phe China seokly noview, . ela, -: Paoific affetre,
Kew International, otae, realizes thet these suerioan - ;
Trotexyiet jouraslists ore: tho wost victous and siost @an=
‘gerous of thé whole ‘lot or resotionary journalists,
diaing bebind a barrage of. Marxiet purasoology (whieh
‘noua of them hao. yet. leoraed to ‘mantpulete with ‘freotlity),
thase people are caer getioelly gonduoting o ‘campaten ot ad be
lisa againat the. Commudist” Interaationsl, the Chinese *
Comauniat Forty, the soviet. vation, the Chinese Joviete

ond ‘the. Chinese, Hed army, 8 gazpaiga enion atae. to under-

PT me ne tseme or eguets emma en t

ntne the ‘edar idence. ‘Of tho outside world tn ‘the Chinese

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OVER CHINESE REVOLUTION

~ THE TRAGEDY OF THE CIN: of. - devious" Trotskyite _-polem
Su LE NESE , REVOLUTION. “By! Isaaes © book, has een reissted,, .
ae i Harold De Issacs, Stanfont Unis ‘partly ta cash in on the hate-China ‘
4 Versity Press, 38° re $5 racket. biel panty because any
+ oe en, ~ * |stick is useful to ig: Business
: a By ROBERT FRIEDMAN - pce the liberation » bound
Poe, 7 H @ presses are spewin forth! anne
anti-Ch ¢ books these déys ot! Isaacs now says he no longer’
42 Pace which bids to match the jtoves Trotsky, whose introduction;
Soviet tont AN’ the ‘old has dropped as a lability, Ine, - :
ina hands” who served Western | stead, ‘he is un open defender ol; a -
?mpenalism as banker, so} TON, SDYs timperialise intervention aginst the -
’ Jor whatever in the Orient ore 1 - i

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a Ow. | le af the Far: East. i
i ’ “people uf .
ibusy at the typewriter, - engaged |! " typien is Trotskyite:
‘in profita ble vd ication: of -430,. But typical of his rotskyi

op oe EY Ge Chinese Communists of the 1920's,: one a
Lo seided- to take their fate in their gee because “they supported] . _ : i
ms, . or gown hands and build for’ them- Chiang Kai-shek despite the facti . . :
po. ; selves,» ewe ae. Ithat e Was to beconie the butcher’
rs 7 i < One book which deserves, eveniot the Chinese revolution, and sea
ie, aan | Eunder the eynical and opportunist before Chiang wheu
iteign of capitalism, some ial le workers in 192)
‘prize for adaptability is Harol D. _e ot :
eal jsaacs* _ Tragedy.-of the Chinese This nonsense, which Wold nilef
wel 00: pRevelttion™ Ae out every political alliance ‘in bjs-*
oO ‘Published frst in 1998° as an tory.ou the chance that today's} a
avowed!’ Trotskyite +t ally might be toraorraw's enemy,

i i V)jis ironic in view of the fact thard |

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woe “Sime book emerges now. itor. i Rae
"> jtefurbished, to mourn the victory | Meanivhile-the nese | ; .
; i the’ very same’ Chinese workers |will So about their business eS : 5
fa Gon litert * fn Socialism, —unconcemed “by. . Soe TT :
SBR ee sy «{Isaacs’ “tears fort} : ~
~U2Eilled with the murky intricacies! 1954 or 1951:
Be .

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_@peake of the China Forum. Since ehe was not in China at

. Binoe you apparently gathered the contributore together

‘mors to hear my account. The enclosed is a copy of a
'. It has been published in. China in a Chinese translation

and copies have been sent .abroad but has not been pub-
- _ldehed in English as fa¥.as-I know. I do not know. the

; wall be good enough to give thea this opportunity.

to which: you have been put in this matter. . I do hope,
: -however, that my letter will enlighteti you. and your
_ friends and enable: you to. appreciate the difficulties

China Forum’at ‘the. present time.. Should such occur, the
' Yesultant. publication would be of a Considerably different:

“she facta given: in ay letter to the C. Pe I think’ people:

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1 Ta Yong Yi Ping Watsng

Felping, China. . . a

7 me "Oot. -B, 1934.

Mr. f. A. Bisson

/136 Claremont Avenue - .
Mount Yernon, N. Y.— ;

Dear Mr. Bisson: -

I have soon the correspondence exchanged between

2 Mr. Olaas- and” yourself regarding thé contributions you  - ~
, Collected for the China Forums. A draft for the sua in
. fall will be sent to you thia week. .

7 I do not. know in the name of whom or what Mias anediey |

the time the Forum Suspended, nor has she corresponded
with me..on-the subject, I consider {% necessary. to place
“pefore you and the other contributors an account of the
circumstances in which the Forum ceased. publication.

in a meeting to hear what Miss: ‘Smedley had to say, I .
would appreciate it deeply if you would gather them onoe

letter. aent by ms last May to the Chinese Communist Party.

names of the people who vora’ good erough to contributs-
to the Forum but their interest in the. matter varranta
plading before them the atory. of what happened to the
magazine. I trust, out of aimplo fairness to me,. you

Yy greatly regret any ‘Aneonveniencé’ or embarrassment.

which have: arisen... I know of‘ no. -Pproject to revive the

Oharacter from the one I edited, as will be. obvious from:

who are interested in- supporting the. revolutionary move=
ment here should know these facts:

“once again, I appreciate all the trouble you have
gone to in this matter.

Did you ever, incidentally, receive the artiole:
°Fasciem in China” and the newsletter which [ mailed to
July 13 iast?

Youre’ sincerely,

enol. me . (Harold R. Tsaacea)
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To the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party:

The two-year period of ay extra-organizational ool-
laboration with the Chinese Commnist Party bas come to.
-end..and the China Forum which I founded and edited dur
jthat. time.hae been forced to suspend ‘publication.: In

“thé. interest." of “our. whole Bovement ag well ae in my per=

gonal intereet, I coneider it necessary to record here ©

‘and publish the history of the Obina Forum and. the cir

cumstances of ite suspension. You refused. me the oppor
tunity to lay ‘the matter before the membership of the

' party even when I offered to dd.80 in your own organs and

not. through the’ columns of the Forun. ‘hen, wrongly, I

“ permitted the Forum to go down in silence, you turned

around and in your organs and near organs in China and.
abroad you proceeded with the usual slanders of "bo prayex*
and *counter~revolutionery’, {n so doing you didn't have
the courage or the ainpls honeaty to state that you pre-

‘gented the Chita Forum with en ultimatum and forced its

suspension vecause in raply its editor raised. questions

“which are being placed before the whole movement today
_ by the International Left Opposition. Nor did you state

that you. deliberately Smashed the Forum for this reason
despite ay repeated and extendéd offers to continue publi-
ecatlon as before-on.a straight anti-Kuomintang, anti-~
imperialist basie, leaving these various problems to de
thrashed out first privately among ourselves. In other —
words, you deliberately forced: suspension of the China ..
Forua . despite the fact, on your own admission, that ita
lose vasa serious low ta’. the revolutionary movement in

~ China, that 1t-mean the disappearance of an organ which

' Yor two years you had considered an extremely valiiable

> inatrument in the. hands of the movement. Here, as in the -

broader Lesuea which léd to our differences, your blind
adherence to false policiea was once more demonatrative
of your Feadiness to place your factional interests above
the interests of. the Chingas Revo}ution. :

In going back over the history of ths ronim, I think
‘the vicious character ef. your action becomes even more —

‘-evident when I start vith the fact that from beginning to].

end I functioned Rot ae a sember of the party but as a.
willing sympathizer. who was prepared to throw all hia
energies into a job he saw he could do - edit and publish
an organ in China which could help mobilise the forces

of this country for struggle against the Kuomintang and

_ the imperialists ‘by exposing the regime of terror and

privation which they have.in-common imposed upon the
masees of the Chinese people. Parmit me to recall at

tion for time or labor. You gave the Forum financial

aid but I never received a dollar from you that was not
put into the paper. I refuged your offers of compensa~
tion and earned my living elsewhere. Your only. claim on
eo wae ny Sull-hearted loyalty to she Commun’ st ideal and

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our Common dedication to the satruggie ayainet a regins
of bate and misery and oppresaton. In the end you for.
foited.thia claim by ceasing any longer to be in ay eysa
honest or-effective leaders of thig etruggle.

Although you helped the ‘Yorum finanoially, the part
you played in building it up from the day it started in
January, 1952, to the day of its last appearance in Janu-.
ary. 1934, was. insignificant. My repeated requests for
cooperation in mattera of circulation. and material for-
publication went largely. unsatisfied throughout ‘that tine.
You never supplied me with the reports Iso frequently _—

and. urgently sought, particularly on trade untona, .atrikxe
" ‘atrugglee, the Red Armies, the Red distficts, atc. very”
“thing tho Forum. did and became was the fruit of the work
of a tiny group of devoted collaborators (the most in- ‘

portant of whom had no connection with you whatever) and
myself who had to depend almost entirely on “our onn re=
sources for everything we did and published. at every
crisis in the Forum's existences, when it was banned by
the French authorities in Shanghai at the very outset;
when it was bounded and persecuted by the American and
Chinese authorities in the summer of 1933, when through
Britieh police pressure it was thrown out of every avail=

“able printing ship in the city; when tha pseudo-Fascist
Blue Shirts again and again threatened the printing plant

whioh I built up partially through personally contracted -
loans -= it was invariably through my own initiative, with

‘tha help of the little Forum staff, that we pulled our-

eelves up by the Dootstraps every $ime and carried on to
a point in January this year where the Forum waa flourish
ing and growing daily in circulation, prestige, and ine

- fluence despite the many formidable obstacles in. its way.

The formation of the China Forum Readers Association,

whioh in the brief ‘apace ‘of three months spread to eleven
cities in five provinces, developing drito e mighty poten-
tial weapon for the revolutionary movement, was the prod-

“uot of Spontaneous action on -the part of the Forun's.

readers, later sponsored and led by the paper itself.

All these ‘were the Forum's own achievements, not yours,
By your arbitrary and. ‘oriminal action you shattered thes
in tne full ‘stride of. their grosth. Becausa to my bitter

_-dieappointment. I had not_nor could { secure the Fesources
to-oarry on myself - owing largely to the difficult urces.

tions of work and the isposaibility of getting revenue .

from the papex iteelf - all that nad been achieved and
was to be aopteved was ground into the dust.

IT.

From almost the very begianing of ay active | work -
which I date from the time I began reporting events in

‘China tn a Communist way ~ a nusber of questiona presented

themselves to me in inoreasingly forcible form. These ; a

’ arose originally from my ‘discovery of the gross distor= |
1

tions and exaggerations whion [ found to de characteristic
of Communist propaganda in Chins and abroad. I define
propaganda as the skilful, clear, accurate and wholly

a truthful reporting of the facte linked to an incisive,

purposive

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purposive interpretation and a Plan of aotion for deal-

ing with the facts in a Tevolutionary way. I learned mo

“bie S204 tue saie aad surx or Lenin and his Bolshevik

“Comrades who taught us-that the truth comes from the.
‘asegs thomeelvea and that only dianater Can result frog.

telling them lies. I have.never learned to the contrary
that it waa py revolutionary duty to work in any other
way although I soon found that the present day Communiat
Party prese makes a practice of dietinguiehing between

propaganda and truth.

Examples of exaggeration and distortion most strik-

" ; Ang to mo were naturally-those which applied to China,
- because here I could cheok allegitionea with known facte.

I firot wrote these down to tne ignorance or inoavacity
of individuals. [ felt. that Communist editors abroad
would publieh accurate facts about China 1f they could
get. them. Accordingly with a friend I tried to set wp.
an independent mail news servios and sent weekly bulletins
to papers all over the world giving brief, sharp, factual.
accounts of what was going on. This wae in the Yall of. .

“4931 after my return from the area of the g¥eat Contral

China floods of that summer. I scarcely understood then .
why this service failed to secure any response from tha
Communist press abroad. after about three months I had
to suspend it for lack of. support. It simply dtdn't got
published except in a few organs which were not official ]
Communist Party papers, including the New York Militant.//
-It wasn't long before I_ began to perceive, with a.
deeper atudy of international events and the history of
the Chinese Revolution, that a Consistent thread. ran-
through the distortiona and exaggerationa whioh. I. found
not only in brief casual. reporte of.current events but -
in the s0lean-pronunolasentoes. made by delegates before
plenums of tha E.0.0.1.°{ discovered that these departures

£rom tho truth vere mado necessary by the official premise -
that ever eaince the. catastrophe of 1937 a mighty, upeurg— .

ing revolutionary movesent bas been marching forward in-

. China to the ‘very brink of seizure of power under the
‘leadership of the Chinese Communist. Party. I discovered

that these exaggerations were necessary beoaueée the prem
with 1% all the basio tenets of
y the Communist International
hina. I cannot begin here to
tortions (which I

the policies being pursued b
and the Communist Party in ¢
give a summary of some ‘of these dis

verbally cited to you by the dozen) ranging from. partiou= . -

lar incidents (the. wilfully false picture given of the
cotton mill strike in. Shanghai in January, 1923, even to
the point of transposing it to February to heighten the -
lapreasion givan of the workern’ role in the Shanghai war)
to bigh flown generalizations like the statement reoently
made before the Plenum of the §.C.C.I. that the C.C.?P. has
won over the majority of the Chinese working class and —

tne peasantry. ot.
ta denying the factual truth of this premise, whence
flows the whole polioy of the Communist Party in China, I:

deprecate not a whit the aagnifiocent militancy and courage
ing again’ and again and fighting

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against terrific oddo in defense of their vary Lives;

hor the noroio etruggles waged vy peasants all over the
country; nor the fight of the Red Armies againet the

‘Kuomintang, ° oe moraly respect the cold, indisputable faat| j

that those etrugxles ‘are defensive, not offonelva, that

“they are teolated, desperate and unorganised. With very

few exceptions - a few smal! strikes here and there and
the lafger exoeption of the Ked Army =: they are witbout
organized revolutionary leaderahip. Moreover the develop=
ment. of this leadership, the taak of the. C.P.; 1a procesd=
ing at a tragioally retarded pace owing to the. falee mo

- policies: ‘and inept tactica of the party.

In denying» the presence ‘of a mighty revolutionary
upsurge (1.e., a vaat, organized - march toward the seizure
of power) I respect facta made ‘atitll Clearer perbape when
compared to the facta and figures of the monster mass move-
mente of the 125-27 period. ‘Tha: tragic errore of the
Communist leadership in 1937 vere: ‘primarily redponaible |
for the decapitation of that great movement and bedause
no lessona have been drawn from those eventa to thie vary.
day, these errors, monstrously accumulated, ar6 still re-
sponsible’ for the tragedies of today, ,But for the purpose

' of oux comparison here, let ua for ekanplo take the single

fact that in 1926 in Greater Shanghai there were 257 ~
strikea. In 1933 there were 82. Let us remenber that

on the eve of the workers! seisure of power in‘ Shanghat

in Maron, 1927, there were more than 800,000° borkers,
handiorafteren. and petty traders out on ‘the streets flght-;
ing with arwo in hands for demands of a ‘far-reaching | pos,
litioal character. A close oheok for the entire count.

in the latter half of 1933 showed me that Yeas than one~ |
thirtieth of that number were; | engaged in strikeo and other
disputea during ‘any given month and that almoat invariably

- the demande were defensive: demands against wage oute and

lockouts. MHoreover, the lack of Gohesive leadership --
often in ‘departments of the sane. factory or in‘one or more |
of-a group of factories = or even sometines lack of even

~ $he. moa t. elementary organization: = has in. almoat every.

case led to deadening failure and relatively easy. betrayal

“by the yellow “labor lesders® and *médiatore? of the
*‘Xuomintang. .

_In 1935" the shooting ‘of thirteen students -

by Britias police in : ‘Danghal wae | the touch-of? for a
general strike which paralyzed the oity and which was
peconded by vaet ayapathy atrikes which broke Like a
series of tidal vaves over the entiro country. [n Janue
ary, 1932, when the Japanese imperialista used the Shanghai
International Settlenent sa a base for opezatione which '
coset the lives of tena of thousands of Chinese, not a
single strike. ‘Anterrupted the normal course of the pub- :
lic or other asrvices in that settlement. In the factories
there were no strikes tut a large scale lockout to which
the overwhelming majority of Shanghai's workers submitted

without protest.

The dogged, persistent strugsle oarried on by eamall
‘seotions of the rank and file workera in tsolated instances
in recent years ia tribute to the magnificent fibre of

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Chinese workers. "It is not evidence that a revolutionary’
seisure.of power is on the order of the day. It 1a evi-
dence, along with the heroifo sacrifices of thousands who

: have lost lives and liberty in CHinese revolutionary

struggle during .the last seven years of Kuomintang re-
aotion, that.1t fa nossible to fight the monstrous white
terror which Chinese Communists freouently cite as a
reason for the insuffitolency of thetr work. Yet it is
largely because thie terror has not been fought effectively
that the Kuomintang regime, desvite the fact that 1t is
rotting ehd orumbling, oan still keep the 11d down on the.

= boiling, simmering hatred of the pedvle it rules. Unless.
_ the martyrdom of thousands of China's finest workers, © .
' peasante and revolutionary intellectuals is to be in vain, .

we must turn resolutely away from the folly of calling to
insurrection when what 18 needed is painataking education,

-. Organization and the sponeorship of day-to-day struggles
of the masses for demooratic denands, the. slow building up

of a varty and mags organizations and a movenent which

“will be able’ to command. the forces capable of. carrying out

an insurreotion.

In the case of the widespread but isolated and in-
dividual: cases of peasant uprisings, and thie includes .
the Red Armies in Kiangei, theee struggles avait the
leadership of a strong working class movement before they

, can have a sucoessful issue. The Red armies in their re-

stricted and Burrounded areas end with their meagre re-

- sources Have. fought heroloally againet the Kuomintang

attacks upon then. But until the Kuomintang is shaken
from its bulwarks in the imperialist controiled working
olass. centres, their prospect of revolutionary triumph
remaing necessarily dim. No revolutionery purpose ia
served by. taking refuge in the’ fiotion that these armies
have vroletarien leadership because individual workers, |
eundonbtedly leaders of superior quality and courage, have
been. torn from thair fadtortes and their fellow-workers ~~
and sent down to ocouvy key positions in the Red Army
districts and in the Red armies themselves. Indeed, this
oommon practice of extracting the most conscious and pro-
greedive working class eléments.from their sorking olasa
environment and sending them down to the Red districts ie

"a good’ index to the oriminal transposition of emphasis

Which has helped paralyze the working class movement in
the cities. If the White Terror doesn't carry off the -
workers’ leaders as they arise, the ¢.P..does and has done
so in mundreds of cases. This helps in no small part to
explain why 1t has also been impossible to mobilize a ‘
genuine mase unti-Japsnese movement in the fect of mili- -
tary aggression and why the White Terror of the Kuomin- |
tang has succeeded, by filling mass graves and innumer-=
able prisons with the martyred dead and living, in down-
ing the anti-imperialist movement or efforts toward the
organization of such a movement and paving the way for

. the ever increasing enoroschments of the imperialists.

The varty has not yet grinned and directed the deep and

“pitter and often inarticulate hatred of the masses of the

péovle for their oppressors and this inoludes large e¢o-
who could be won by

‘tiona of the lower vetty bourgeolote ;
successful mass pressure from below. This ia because the

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Party hao failed to tranalate the realities of everyday
eventa into {tS program and taovica.. 2 :

I cannot. here go into the many-faceted problens ‘and
fesues which flow from these facts with regard to the
poltctea and tactics of the Chinese revolutionary movement
Nor extending to:the international scene need I go intéd -
the terrific. effects of the Gernan catastrophe nor the
‘storm of questions whioh has been directed ‘at the-C.I.
leadershiv whose responsibility in the disaster has be-
come nakedly clear to ‘unnunbdered Communists. and Comaunist:
-eymoathizors the warld over. Nor into the whole set: of —
taplications which arise from the polioies of the 0; Tey
with narticular reference to the late develonments in |
Soviet foreign policy, the Litvinov-Roosevelt agreement,
the forthcoming mooted entrance of the U.S.3.R. into the
League of Nations and.in a enaller but equally oharaster-
foetio way, the forthcoming association of the U.S.8.R.
with the Inetitute of Pacifio Relations which hopes to
hold ite next talkfest in Mosocw, These problems, with
their many sveocifioc links to the Chinese questions, were ~
the basic questions over which I soon. began to take 1ssue
with the offtotal views of the Party end the International. .

il.

: But precisely because’ at all costs I fesired to oarry

on the Forum's open struggle against the common enemy ~
‘against the Kuomintang and the imperialists - I sedulously
. ‘avoided bringing these issues into the colusns of the paper,

SO , .. dnoreasingly against my better judgment. I leaned over Yar
“ee Vc 0). 2 packward in thie respect. This expressed itself in many
_ : “ of the. current iasues with which we had to deal.

Forum waged on behalf of. Paul. end Gertrud Ruegg in the
epring and summer of 1933 during. which time I repeatedly.
.,.? @arned againat the emohasis whioh waa being placed on. the
.. Slégal® agvneots of the cace and -the *negotiations® with -
‘| the Kuomintang to the detriment of mass pressure ‘and the -
_| Qapitaligation of the case for political purvobes. You

'. -gaid ltp service to the need for mass.vressure - partiowkx
larly nére in China-= but in fact the "legalities" and _
futilé negotiations remained the major pillars of the de~ -
““fense.- Until in the very end I finally rebelled, I vaen't
.9¥en permitted to give Ruegg his honourable and rightful:
title - secretary of the Pan Paoific Trade Union Seore-
tariat. Yét, although I felt the struggle for the Rueggs
wae being seriously handicavoed “by the tactics being pur-
gued, I carried on the fight with all the energy at my
command and you will recall that it was I who orented the
looal defense comnittes. and was ohiefly responsible for
‘the widesoread preas vropaganda and the considerable
Bymoathy which we aroused. Yet the strictly non-political
attitude whioh Ruegg wae forced to aSsuse at the trial

‘(in contrast to the highly political at.itude of his _
prosecutore) was in my opinion one of the major reasons

for -

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“bourgeots satellites of the Fukien militarists.
--e@. much to satiafy myself on this very point as to per-
form a mtssion for you that I went down to Fooohow and

‘ regime.

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for the fate to whivh he and hia wife were condemned.

I ask you. to recall thé whole neriod of the organtsa=
tion end activities of the China-Lesgue for Civil Righta, |
from Decenbér, 1932, to June, 1933, in which I took an °
notive pert. I.gave full vlay to this hybrid League and '
its vork without. once publishing the basic critioia7s |
which I. often. volced’to ‘you and whioh in. the end vere:
wholly confirmed by what Nannened after the Kuomintang.

.. gurdered Yang.Chien in Juné that. year.

"2 ask you ‘to recall. the. views I pet forth in August...

and Séntember, 1933, on the subject of the "anti-War don-

grees" whioh at your specific request I did not. publish,
Instead, to my regret, I published the foul rot of Mar-
ley & Co., without freely giving play to the true facta
about that faroical junket which had convinced me that.
the volicies which gave it birth do not.one single whit

war.

; On one occasion ~ ‘and this at least I can take: done .
fort in’ I passively resisted when you requested me to
write and publish a slanderous attack on Ghen~Tu-hoiu
when he was condemned to. 13 years japrisonnent by the
Kuomintang. ‘Your request was sneoific. I was not to
deal with the igsuea which had brought Chen Tu-hatu from
being the leader of the C.P. in 1927 to being leader of
the Chingee Opposition in 1933. I was only £0 String to-

‘gether a vile sertes of labela in an effort to explain ©

why the Kuomintang even imprisoned thé leader of. the
Left Opvosition. AB you know, that attack was never

“eritten or published. _

Again in December, 1933, upon. my return fron Furishy

"Fou specifically demanded that I set aside the results 4

my own versonal investigations in Foochow in order to.
write on your behalf (but over wy signature!) an utterly
baseless and slanderous attack on the Left Opnosition. —

' You Will recall that you chargad at-that time that. the

"Trotskyiste® weré prominently identified with the new
governzent sat uo in Fukien by Chen Ming-sbu and Taai' |
Pang-kel.. You lumped the Left Opvosition with the Third

Party and the eo-callad Social Democrats among the petty
t wad

Spent-tso weeks there and learned through direct gontact
with dozens of people prominently concerned that ths Left
Onnosition were stoutly snd olearly onvosed to the Foochow
I_haven't place bare.to discuss the relations of -
the 0.P. to the short-lived Fukien Government or the ohar~ _
acter of the "negotiatione’ which wera going on down there... -
The. imoortant thing here iy that on ‘ny return you demanded
that I write Slanders whioh flew in the face of everything
I myself had lenrned.. It la interesting, ad a eidelight

on. your methods in factional etrife as you conceive tt, ;
that your representative in Fooohow sent back a report,

“through n¢, ironically enough, that one of the soat prom

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Chi-yuen. to be exact, wad A leading *Trotakyist". It so
haovenvd iLes ¢ nai vet Gat oat several lensthy interviews
with Yu and by the time I left Pooohcs I underatood his
position ard his nersonality exceedingly well. He Was ag’
‘much a Trotskyist. as uei Lan-fang 16! Yet you actually
demanded that I ignore my own knowledge of the man and in
my artiole on Fukien set him down as 4 *trotskyist®’. I
waa faced on the one hand by your denands that I write
‘falsehoods to suit your policies and on the other by ay
.-deeo desire to set forth the actual facts about the Oppo-
cgitton's attitude tovards the Fukien regime. But once
mores £0 Or eeee the shreds of our relationship, I drove
- amd
out of my article. |
that these issues weighed more and
despite the fect. that events in
essing themselves sore and more
imperatively on the-oconcerns of every Sincere revolution-
ary, I still trisd to. keen the Forum balanced on its
ribbon-like path, concentrating on the anti~Kuomintang,
anti-imvertaliat atrugele, and in so doing fulfilling at
least a partial funotion as a revolutionary organ, i
deeply felt, however, that I was betraying my readers by
' avoiding thess iseues. How could I write of Germany and
avoid all the implications of that disaster? How could
'. J write of Amertoa’s recognition of the U.S.S.R. and still
fail to say that. the Communist International had virtually
7 : been murdered ‘at Washington? -How oould I warn against the
cous . dangers of imperialist ntervention in the J.S.S.R. and
me . stili not point out. that Soviet foreign colicy was in
: - faot dally heightening the danger of such iatervention? ..
Yet I. somehow did so and sought in whatever way possidle
‘to: retain some basis for our continued collaboration.

_ Despite the facte
more heavily uvon me@,.
China and abroad were oF.

ee

Nevertheless, abruptly in January of this year you.
forced ‘an ultimatum upon me and subsequently forced the
break in-our relationship because I could not and vould
not, at your demand, devote. the China Form to policies
which I could not and do not: believe compatible with the:
interests of the Chinese Revolution and the international

_ proletarian revolution. I could not, at your demend, set
aside the convictions to which I had literally been driven
‘by the stinging lash of catastrophic. events in China, ~
Germany and the world over. Particularly ay deep inter-
est in Chinese events during the last three years made it :

’ {modesible for me, finally, to give active susport to ct
policies and tactios whose disastrous effects vere being
a thousandfold confirmed for me by the tragic events of
-every awiftly-vaseing day.. I gould not ignore questions
which atrike at the roots of our work and the whole struo-

- ture of our hopes for a revolutionary future.

: Despite the fact that these questions are rooking
the entire International today, you denied ay Fight to

raise

dle course and did neither, leaving the whole question. st
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That was to bg. the main point of my reformation = to raise |
“no questions myself and ‘slander anybody elee who did 80.

- effectively nut into practice, I
' publication striotly as before,

. Dublish.orthodox news. and
the right to comsent and criticise.

“. offered to disousa these questions w

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raise them in print. You deaanded more, You demanded
that I attaok anybody who did 80 - primarily the peovle.

‘you oall “counter-revolutionary Trotskyists® - the only

ng these problems today in a fearless,
Tou demanded that the China Forus
the volicies and vulgar. faction-

el Slanders which I could neither then nor now be party |

peopie who are’ fact
revolutionary wny.-

to. In reply to.my questions on China you simply quoted oo,
_. back tome the lies an Se ~
... Feéading in Inpreoorr.
. ganda vurposes a.cert
gary...4.and went on amasingly to say:

a half-lies I've been so used to
‘You even daclared: “Yor propa- .
ain amount of exaggeration is necee=
*but we know the.
true. facta and we base our. policies on thea, not on these
_A new Slant on modern-day é.1. tadtioa!
Facts, you @aid, are curious things. They have to be
turned around and around and around and examined. closely
until their true nature becomes apvarent. The trouble {8
rn them 60 far and so quickly that they turn into
something like a dizaily turning top of. fancy — or. at
vest wieh — fulfilling misrepresentations.

fo my: questions on Germany you. quoted Heckert,
Phatniteky, and the 2.C.C.1I.'e famour resolution deoler~
ing that the collapse of the German party and the slaughter
of the German workers were based on the past, present and
future correct policies of the 0.7.0.3 You declared I had

“no right. to offer eritiosal comment on the dangerously
opnortunistic foreign and domestio polict

| es of the U.3.5.R.,
most notably on the entry of the U.S.9.R. on a straight

“nrationalist basia into the disgusting corridors of in-

perialist intrigue. To the contrary, I was to lovingly
fammingly fondle and hail the polioies which have meant
disaster in China, Geraany and elsewhere ond are rapidly —.
leading: the U.3.5.R. into the vacuum of nationalist 1s0-
lation from -the world wide nroletarian movement. Thie I
was to do, to begin vith, by publishing Stalin's face on
the. front page and colunns of the customary, panegyrics ~~
to hig infaliibility. Above all and before all, I was to |
Trotekyiam*.

I submit to an editorial
al policies should be, —
offered (1) to continue
meanwhile arguing out my.

Ia “reply to your demand that
board in-order that these editort

: patons on the aide: (2) to ; ae

diffarences. with you ‘in digou
throw the columns of the Forum open to a general disous=-

-sion of all: basic revolutionary qrestion, with free play
-to unorthodox as well as orthodox views, If your views : ve

were correct, I argued, 11 would be a distinct advantage +
to you to have such an ovcortunity to display their crii-

Lianoe alongside the puny efforts of your critios; (3) to
ad views but to reserve for myself

These repeated offera you reveatedly refused. You
ith me verbally if in

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oe. . the seanehile I throw the Forun oven to your: editorial
board. ‘éy other pronogala were unthinkable! Give tha
Forua's readers a.chance to hear tounter-revolutionary"
| Vlewvoints? Never that! I could only display ay revo-
lutionary purity by acceding to your dezands. We would
talk things over until Spring, then if all went well (1.0.,
if I: showed a" datisfactory adnotability to your view-
voint) I couldpack up for an educational trip to tha
= Soviet Union where I sould certainly become convinced
“of the error of my ways. In other words you wanted my
. Signature on a promissory note with the amount left
“. blank for you to £111 in. You put this in the. form of
“- Qf Ultimatum and you told me that if T-did anything but:
/ accert I would forthwith enter the camp of the “oounter-
revolution", . 7 . ;

~.., -t-had'to refuse these terms. I had to refuse to
lend ayself to a slanderous and baseless strugele against -
the International Left Opvosition. I had to refuse to

a lend space to the nauseatingly fawning praiee of Stalin

oe eta J). and uReritical reoeption of Stalinist polioies which
_ —_ characterize the Comaunist Party press the world over.
' I bad to refuse to take shelter in the Cold and draughty

eavty spaces which stretch behind the impressive facade
and early tradition of the Communist International. . I
would like to go to the Soviet Union for a vist sBomeday =
-but I had to refuse your offer on your terms. I had to
refuse, in phort, to bécome a hack prostitute in the nae.

of the Revolution.

on ; ' In the end, too, I had to refuse to turn over to you -
; ‘the printing plant I had built uo with 80 much pain and
struggle bedause I considered it not your proverty but .
.the ‘proverty ‘of the working Glass movement. Beoause I
could not carry on the Forum myself, for leck of finan
. . -+ @4al resources and because of heavy debts contracted, I
woefwenco wns QLaposed Of “the. plant and turned every farthing of the _
; proceeds’ over to where I now oconatder the true interests
of our movement lie. It was. with a deep and abiding ‘bite
terness that I had considered comrades, when for two years —
-. 1% bad fought off all 1ta many enemies on the outside.

Yet with it came the realization that we have to
build anew over the ruins you have wrought. The Tevolu-
‘tion ‘and the building of our future moves. forward and
; -when we trample down the defenses of our enemies we shall
- .  - “=~ exrush underfoot everything and everybody that stands in.
o . our way. Bo sycophantic, blind. allegiance to a name, an
; -@npty facade, a torn and shredded prestige can lead ue
" - forward. Only unswerving fidelity to our goal and active
| Struggle towards this end with the weavons of a correct
and tosted political line will lift us from defeat to ul-
‘timate victory. To this struggle I shall oontinue to
dedicate all my energies. .

; Harold R. Ieasoa.
Peloing, China
Nay 30, 1934.

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‘POST WRITER ADMITS ALL =
| ' ROREA! OPPOSES INVASION -
| The Korean people aro ‘united honest leeadtliges “S. Kareuns Dont
behind the Literation Annies from] Know Why Help Has Come.*. i
the North ant are hastile to the (in Late exditiong the Post ine
Anerican reaps sent thera dicated its own awaraiss: uf the ; .
| paunan we eaertianist ones, tho Dhoniness of this headline by drop. ° -
Harold It. Eases, edhontted ce bing i gtr one complained:
day, eee ° pee Cleat Front) Sonne Mane
— Isanes’ article Rave the lic ‘to But Isaacs made clear that “if,
the " in China during the Japanese war - :
the Americans had a Ericanily pop- '
tlatlon on their side, this ix by

$ own editorial fine uf
. f8Upport ta the police-state feginie
of Syngliman Ithee and the Tro.
+; Man attack on Korea os an act lol ng- means tho case now-in Korea, . .
defend: “democracy.” a He conchides:. “Even if te war! :
| Isaacs declared that the: U. S.iremains localized, even. victory -
has “much more reason: ty cout won in due course will be atem- _
+ Or general Korean has Porsry one, and such S.victory will”
On hemic support.” Ho. admitted not be easily woo.” if
that "Sunth Korean cwiliwns hava! eee ee
‘heen “infiutely harder hit by Ure: o
verican vetion so fur? than hy — .
; their tcllow-Kuseany from the;
“forth, : mo | . o :
: The South Korran government ; o

Was an “uopopular one in the elec; me
‘tina held only four weeks. ayo,"; -

i Iswacs said, “the regime of Presi”

: dent Syngman Rhee: was decisively +

i Movemenis ia. Suuth Korea could" 7 . : -
! have operated only with a con. . . soot : a

: Sderoble meature of Popular sup. : :

} port,” and be acknowhad the

t“intenss desire of all Kuteans for

“reunification of their disnembenw] :
‘To top this story, bristling with’

«exposure of the imperislitt natu
Of the Truman’ attack an Korea,
end with evidence of tha Korean} *

boople’s awareness .of their real
enemy, the Post concocted the dis-

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1th reference te RA. ‘memorandum No. 1305 of Decexber . ms
~ 1931 5. regard Log’ “erold ISaacs “anc his ‘¢cakeotion *ith ‘
lai NCULENS, it has just been learned that one Viola:
CN arrived in “shanghat on August za, 1asz, ‘by the. .
et : . a Ol othe Sede OMPALSS CF onS]A. | Co au.cust 29 ‘ies UCBINIGN,
wee ee ee! .» Sogether bith Harold. rsaacs of the CHINA FONUN, ga.e notioe |
a . . tO, the United Stateo Consulate Gneral ef their intended

. . “marriage, aiich actually tcok Place ca the léth September. | : ‘
To ae “In his. Barriage application, TSAacs par ticularly requested

_ ‘that nc publicity ba given to the fortheeming ceremcny. It
Acpears that tise ACBINUCN ds a foliczer of the Suffrsgette,
Lucy STCNE,- aho,. somo fifttern cr teenty yesra aso, advccated
ancns smericrn women the retentien of the maiden nane after -
narcrlass. According to ofviciala of the United. states
Conse late Cenoral, VAcla CHIN. CN, therefore, Ll Ll not be
kncan as Vrs. Is SAMS.

In connection aith Viola: “OIN: “CNT activitios in “china,
ina letter, ‘dated Szeohuen, July 24, 1931, Harold ISaacs
wrote to viola CB INSCN aa folloss: : :

"You | sre in the awin; Mola. Ita coaing back to
dive in and Belm Alongside. “hat co vou'think? It
is all eatremaly fortuitous from our gtandncint
thes I sbculd have secn the Licht at last. Your
work «ith “toc and the future in i¢ ba far more .
important tren anything yeu eculd co out here or By
anywhere elea for that matter. i'll ‘get: back - _ - a,
Qo aatter a peesible delay + na- aatter how 2. there —- --- 22 meas
Biil ‘be a Job to be Cone ane bY cur ecds I'm Bokng er an ‘
to cet into Abe". cose ! |

, attention is called to the name, nun nenticned in. Ene. atove.
fF 6 7. exbfaet.. . :

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_ American Consulate. General, :
a Shanchad, Ch ina, Reseaber’ 30, issl,
= Subjeot: Harold K. Isaac.
fo . aH HoRoRAR *
‘—e TES SHCKAPARY UF SPATE,
. | RASHINGTOM,
: see a SARL oS
I have the honor to report that an Averiean a.
4. 7. " @£¢deen mased Harold 2. Iea.08 haa doan raported $e ae
7's Ghia oftive by the poltes of the Mtornatienad Set 7
Slenent asa corsanist suspect. | The foote reeanding a ;
Le Ur. Teansa aro briofly ag follova: ee

i Me Haroid Rs Toaaes eallod at gto office in
: — Desender, 1930, and (Gtated that he would be for a feu
“months in ‘Sharighet 5 at that ¢ino-he oxhibited pags-
“port Ho. 177026, tamed by tho Department of State on

March 17,. 1950. Re stated that he expootad $0" leave
- Shanghat in June, 10315 tat bio hone.ras in Kou York :
City and ‘that hig’ local eudress wag in care. of the
Anoriean Expraaa Coupany.

Ageonding to Poliée reports Tanseo arrived. in
“Shanghag fron Manila aga fivet- clasa passoncer on the
3. 3. PRISIDIN JErrenacn on Deocaber 17, 3936, He was
employed by the SEAPGEAT cymes PG PROT AND LSSCURY and
later hy the CrIPA PRLAD bus apparently lost both
‘ peoltiong.
she ATE 09 Te Wane 2 lie ,

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C. Yronk Glusa at 120 vothalvet fond and modo a trip with —

Glasa to Srechuen during Juno, 1951. Tho poles file:
doataing a aopy of a letters written by hin.to a Miss

Viola. Robineon,. euro of the Arorlogn Consulate, Proeden,

. Gerneny, anteé July 24, 1931, at ‘Chenctu, -Szeahiuen.

‘This lottar, 1% is stated, was roturne: unopened to.
Shanghai fron Dresden, atdrcesed to Herold R. Isases °
an oare of tho Anorioan Er prese Company, Shanchad, and
was opened by the Post Office Consor at the request of
tho Cound dstonar of Posts, The. letter 1a very long and.

. Shows that Leases, al though previoualy holding Gon-
 munietic views, only @eolded dofinitely to turn "hed"

during July of thie year. He stated th: at he wav in-

fluenced in thie dooloton by gertedn conversations with

0. Frante Clesa, above referrod t6, during their trip. to —

Szechuan.

In connse$ion thorewith At ‘pay be of intorsat to
state that aoaording to a polieo report dated Ostobor.

iv, 1931, information regard ing this. Lotter was given .

by the Shanghat-Muntetpal : Polos to-an officer of the
lceal Eritiah Consulate Coneral, who doparant2 7 sabdlad -
“in formation Pa arming 16 to London. “The polioe report :
Otates that. a reply waa sudsecuently reeeiva: the gles
of which ia aa follors
"¥iala Hobinnon arrived in tho t United

States abous the nicdle of Sentenuver. Tha

whela faclly 2re ecorruntota in touch sith

Teaseg' Partly.”

Tho polite atata thus Harold fh, isaces lu Bovenbher,

1931, oatablished a neva Anan was or she nema of the

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. a *7ar Rasters Me tert) Sorreasondenco,” cubdle aidresa
ce . Feupresop, P. G. Dox 1026. On Goteber Oth Isaaca and
Gy Frank Glass ‘poved fro: Lf: Toihaiwet Rowd to House
_ Fos 6, Passace No. 177, Avenuo Pubail., The police atate To “;
“that this address. waa formerly: ‘nom Ye) Thunder OB Avonus — _
‘Dubai and is the boarding house at ‘which Agnes Snedloy-
“A> ~~ ** peetdod fron tay, 1029, to May 1940. The poliea report
‘that Agnes Smedley frequently visits Tecaes an@ Class
at thig acdress. — -
im. my monthly politicn2 rayort for Noverher, on
DagO. 16 4¢ waa atated that the bodisa of nWLOROUS Mondera -
of the family of a certain Kou had been murdered, allegedly,
“by Sommnista in retaliation for Kouta suming traitor to
" the communist. cause, In conrestion with tito matter rn
. Tsaaes addressed an open letter to the verious newspapers
‘of Shanghai, under date of Hovenzer £4, 2931, in whieh 7 : : :
"he seored them far branding these alloges murders Sa aan
horrible” and rdnotordly,” while et the p26 tino thoy
“G44 not raise their editorial voices agains t the wholes
sale muniers Gorm tted by Chiang kaleshek, th io ‘Garr toon oo 7
Comender ‘of Shangl.ad and ‘other. Chinese. militariste, | oo
Rone of tho. papers saw fit to publish this letter tus T=

By have reeeived a copy thereor, and copies ere anelosed. se bBo
I have also Poveivid a photostatia copy of the last pace i
-eontad: 2s the stensture of Mr. Igases. ot , 2

Rospestfully youra,

E’ywin 5. Gunninckea,
Anerioan Congil General,

“Ewlowure:

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Your publiention of tho "chastly (Shanske Tinea),
“horrible? (China tress), tdasturdly” (“Voning Pdéot ‘and:

. . North China Daily tee) mindera allosedly samitted by

wee . Chinese Corgmunists in the Free’ Coneesaion brings

a : foreibly te nind cértatn ether anects cf tho Chinese ~

; Oo ‘scene shone. phastitness end barbarity find their way
- .. . (into your columns only at rare intervals + and tien . .

“2 only in brief eool nargcradhe. ;

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. There dan be no atiennt t “Justify” these alloged
, © uMlergs, dP? the tale be trig, Se sll hate the suts of a
a ; traitor, . is wo canret all condone a syste: of vendetta
" - 0  - Shioh azsete ao the arice st batimyal tha innooont lives:
of a traitor!s fuvdiy, That, howevar, Invelvaa the. >”
cuestion of difiering secial euators to witeh no abstract

morul a solute oun pocably be annlied, :

BotFayal has ita vriee under any secial nora, ;

| Whether wo turh. the cirty wor< of vonzesnce over to tha: -
‘dnoffable neroios of the Lord or exploy the lesa sesthotia |
but more effestive Lnatrumante of the Gcliovs, eleotrio —
chair, lethsl enanbder, the culllotine or the vore recined
weapons of social setragiacy whother we conelder the:
traiter himself? rasponsisle for his adtions - or exaes |
rotridbutien fre: hin blesd reliatiens ss voll. i{Jehovah, -
too, visits tho sing of ghe father upon hia children,
yea, oven unto the thir and fourth coneratiorat)

_ But you reporters, whose typosri tera cuivered
with. the horror of these alleceéd desta of murder in
Frenohtown sn atili without a Quals c“ndone and éven
,S:pPeas sutiafadtion at rasa msders-a thousand tines
mero revolting, a thousand times nore- barbarous ~ but
; less so tn your Journalistioslly judicious eyes only
ee . besause offivially perpetrated. : .

; You eit’ o'itora < e$ tho moment sending your nen .
out to run dom tho lnat threaded folos to this partiouler
story - way don't you send then out to Lumchua eome Mine .
minny morning? hy don't you sive them an onportunity’ -

“to witnasa the torture anid merder of young nen ané women
whose only erire 16 a realiatio avoreedation ef tho
social and eeonenic fuetors et wor:.in the world and
a denand for their pesdjustnent? ; a

You e itors, whe wield your ed!tor{al novera ao
solf-ri-hteously, why doen't jou O-nolatently o-amine and
lecioully expose a -overnzent that meintatne itselr
largely by desporntaly slauchtering the flower of ite
protasting youth and the backbone of tte peaaant tRadgog
who attaipt protest accinst dea venality.and corruption?

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(aly when it ila convenient for yur foretm interesta,’
hovover,’ Go yo: find it-politte to treet Out some af your
favorite Blasts ucainst the hanklog regime, attaexs whieh
are almost always ismiealintoly offeet by the Re boat ing |
@alocles and blatant lioo that foller,

'- Gonaidered from ‘your on point of view, Kessra. «
Editors, the mrtorera of Piess Vrorehtown people aiould |

ws De brought to juatiog and made to pay for, thetr. orfios,
7 Muteedn

Larly Tro: your own point of view, to whist bar of
Justice should Chiang Sal. Sha: be broucht , bdfore shins

‘tribunale on we arraign the carrisan ecnrmandora of Shanghe4,

Nenking, Henkow, the warlords of Shantung, ogechuen,
Fwangtung and Manchuria fsx the livea they Have taken in
the perpetual wars they have waned cna the people of Chinay ©
On any prineiplen of abstruct Juatiee, Js the nase minier
of thousunds by the machine cun, the honber, the rifle, the
wword, thé axe any rere Just than the furtive atren mulation
of nino hopeleas relatives of a valf-branied yellow eur?
This perpetual warfare hes bean waved. on the protext of
suppressing "banditry.” If thts be 90, va are eonfronted

with the startling f2et, vouenol for and advertised by

the government boasting the recopniticn of ali roroeten

‘powers, that vast portions of. the Chinase population are

Orininals Gn t:is promise, Chiang tat Shox & Co. |
backed by the echorts of tho Svong Eonage swoon down on

“whole Tovinses, massucre thousands, take heavy tolls

from the mougre life eornincs of neagonte and workers,
And with all their “uns. and plenes and hundreds of |
housands cf. soldiers, thoy still fil to eradigate the

."bandita.”

the aré the bandits, tno robbers, the murderers?
Answer this (Moat ion, hesrre, Leltors - and enewer 1¢

\. Nonostly aP you dares - :

Japan, in violatien of so-called principles
of Justiag, but in Mall accora rith the legsong of

history, 1s helsing herself to a gucd atieo ef Continental

Asia, allegedly port of the Nankiog Gevernaentts domain.

. Laoklig the ‘eourdge, tho ebilaty, the inolination to turn

its cuna on the invader, the wuonintang eita in solemn.

| @anelave et banking and alasusses further measurss-wileh,

it hopes, will parmit the extermination of now porticns
of China's vast “ertzinal" population to procress
moro effeatively.

Let un take cone of tho Psets esorndiealLly renorted
ve your own and the Chinese aress during Kay -Degentber,
2932, You reported 4,749 euecutiona, from other, more.
meticulous 6 urces are derived stutiatios whieh show that
ro lesz thon €651C were executed durine the last four months
of 1P3C alone! This flouwre sounds (lobular, doesn't 437
Yet “or every dinitt there {a somennare in China a rotting

corpse.
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Rovenber 24, 1931.

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to the opening of the T! tx Plenary tessien ‘of tte
Party in 1¢8¢ aopToxinstery 450 OC workers, poasonta,.
and students ~at deat: at the hands of C} hina’ a
’povolubticmyy” ames. ne ‘Shangha ¢ dni ly (Chinese)
inte the noxt year @: itorlalizea as collcwar- -

"422 China's probleas ‘coutd be antisi=eturily sci tlea-if

the food. wort: of the nas8 fev oonths onn bo oontimieds
_ Fron Aufust to Gotoder (163¢) alone 140,000 Communists
wore killed and 45%) ahd 3 ; people starved to death in tho.
’ famine regions.” : . /

“And 1f tho dimenatens ‘of those fisurco aro not .
aetly enough to nove f:u, shall we cnénro in a bit of
eLLOfoun des@rinticn of. the tortures a: lied by these
richSaous saviors of China? Shall we sposk of the

7 burning ga in ofl, the buyying alive (aa wore five young
. san ane wortan of 1

unchua-on-Pebs 7. last} the strenmlatio ,
tho unspeekeble mutiiaticn of human dodies before <eath? -
Those aren't wild nightmares.. ‘You have ell: sean and. :

shuddered at the ghotorraphgs whieh ean atlil be bought

Rer@ and there in Shanghod depleting sheso processes in -

all their geriesliness, .

And. at theae, Kesara, K- itors, as grit raiee

“your etitoerial henés in saintly. hom so? Re you aploesh.

your_enlumna rith the adjectives “dastardly, horrible,
rhastly?® Hardly. That. would offend your Nanking.
frienia. If you do not maintain silenea that bespoaka
eonteontnent, re brazenly applaud. ‘Yor this wo can :
quote you chapter and verse from your OWN Ou ‘itordals.

oe There’ are No crgans “no nudlientions hero that’
dare leok these feats tolaiy! in the face, Your —

ie at least one opnortunity to invest: then aith sora

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Threat to Turn Isaacs
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: ~ cae eo : gHiaNanat, “oe. 9—The! Wott
fol ; ‘{Gtreet government, ‘supperting its. -. °
- -] Nanking butcher agents, has threat-
at - ae . ened to turn oyer Harold R. Isaacs,
boo —— ‘American editor of the “China’ Fo!
vs - um,” te-the Nanking hansmen. |
-. Ap editor of tho. ‘Ching Forum,”
Innsca hos committed the ¢rime’ -
-fagainst Impertaiiam of supporting -
‘tho Chineso Revolution and ruthless-
ly exposing the mass murder of revs:
olutionary Chinese workers and peas
: . ants by the Nanking regime and the; - .
5 : Loe oO United Btates and other imperialist’ mo, _ 0
bo. Co brigands. He has exposed tho shame. : . .
a - : : "I ful sell-out of the Chinese masses. :
; : _ by the Nanking trnitors to the Jap:
' aness, American And other imperi -
Sete. ¥
i - . - * The, Unitea Btates ‘goverment has _
4 . warned Isaacs that it will withdraw - soe . : a
pote. ; the protection of oxtra-tervitorial : ST, oe ;
‘ -|rights unless ~ the “Ching Poruri’-
.Jchangea ita editorial: and news pol-!
- [eles Under the extra. -territortality
Jtraaties imposed upon China by ihe
impsrtallets, American and’ ‘other celts 7
feng of the imporilaist powers may se -
_]mot be tried in. the Chinése courts, ‘ oo
Because Isaacs le an Afhertean... cltl- _ oo, :
zen the Nanking government has nob
[been able to wreack its vengeance, on
Jun for bla exposure of thetr bloody:
. terror and’ betrayal of the Chinese
Jmasses, Tho Wail Street Governs.
ment, which protects ita business
{agents ‘» locting China now proposes
Jto throw Isaacs to its Nanking lack-!
eys for trial in the Chinese courts
yon charges carrying life imprison<
A ment or the death penaity. fee
‘] Usancg ‘bas caregoricaily refused to
: : "yp eoncede to the demands of th: United’ .
i : ‘{Btates government that he change | , no, 7 .
. _ the policies of the “China Forum. . a4
Fea ts closely associated tn the antl- °
impevislist, anti- Kuothintang fight
wits Madam: Sun ‘Yat-sen, who ts
ehiarmsn of the commutre brading
the fight to save Poul ant Gertrude
Reueggs from a death Sentence in the.
Chinese courte. ~ :
| American workers and Inteltectuats
and their organizations should at
onee zend “gorocy protest’ to tho _
POtate Department at Washington,
pases is Attempt toa oad isnaca
‘we death in the Nanking Cou’ |

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A correspondent asked af the Prenoh Government ‘haa askod -

‘tho. ‘Stata Dopartaent . for an agrSncat for & new Ambassador. in

Washington, uM / Gersaine-Martin. ir. Rogars replied in tho

woe: a a ; ‘negative. . : Ce eee

CHINA :
a corroepondont ‘gaked if Represontative La Guardia’ of
Now York had aaked the Stato Depertment to intervene in tho
case of an American namod Harold Isaacs whe is. now oditing a
; newspaper in China, which, according to preas” doapat ches,
t ; “4g a Communist organ, The corressondent continued by saying
that according to storice the American diplomatic offioers
in China warned “Mr. Isaacs that he would bo, likely to lose
his oxtraterritorial status because of nisactivitics, Fur
theradre, hie father, who is in Sew York, wants the Départ—
ment of State to get ur. Harola Isaace back and have hin de ——
HY ported. . In reply, “Urs Rogers said that he knev? nothing of
any communication from Mr, La Quarcia on the subject. In ‘re-

gard to ‘the story, it la not true ‘that this Government hes -

threatened to deprive ur, Isaacs of ‘Tals extraterritorial righte:

"an Shangha,

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BCLIVIA-PARAGUAY.

7 a correspondent asked if the State Department. had roceivod
any roporta to the effect that the Boliviens had captured ‘tvo0
Paraguayan forts, In reply, Wr. Ro sere said that he “undor~
stood that Asaistant Secrotary Waite talked with the corrospon=
dente last night concorning the situation and that ur. Whito

might posaibly bo able to seo the corrospondenta again today.

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DATE: 10 AUGUST 1953 .
CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL
SUBJECT: HAROLD ROBERT ISAACS
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1. & 12 July 1967, WSPARROW/1 renewed his old friendship with -
, Subject at tha MIT Faculty Club. Subject 4s now-a- senior research associate ;
at MIT's Center ‘for International Studies and” has recently beea naned a an -

Professor. , ' oy

_ 2, For the past few years Subject has been working on an international -
study series involving minority racial groups. His reports have been :

“published in the New Yorker magazine and an books, The New World of ¥
Americans and India's Untouchables, Subject plans to publish in August

level.”

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the Philippines. 2 . .
3. WUSPARROW/1 first mot Subject in 1986 after he had- just completed
a long end friendly interview with Ho Chi ‘Minh as Far East correspondent
for Newsweek. At that tine, Subject felt that the United States was making |
a mistake in not accepting Ho as the leader of a united Vietnan, veeling
that Ho waa independent enough of China to make him at worst @ sort of
Tito. . .
§.- Subject presently ds despatring of United States foreign relations
tn: that our people ‘fran Washington, or elsewhere, seldom seea to establish |

“-a deep rapport with Asian or African nationals, Gubject feels-that such.
relations aa do exist never reach more than an. ineffective superficial

5. ‘Subject firat vent to the Far East about 1930 when he wes a crew

“member of the Matson Line's Malolo and disembarked at Honolnlu to work for

the Honolulu Advertiser. (WUSPARROW/2. went to work for the sone Paper two.
years later.) Subject went next to tha Philippines where he worked on a -
Manila daily. While in Manila he was offered the editarship of the Bangkok -_
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Shanghai and Joined The China Press, vorking alongside Tiltman DURDIN,
now of the New York Tizes. Subject lost hia Job with The Chins Press
after a flare-up. with Hollington TONG, part-owner of the paper. Subject
‘then joined the ‘Newsweek. foreign ‘staff. Subject was in and cut of
Bangkok after World War II and WUSPARROW/1 became’ friendly with hin, |
According to ‘WUSPARROW/1, many pedple tegard Subject'sa Tragedy of the
Chinese Revolution as a significant vark'and-a- Fecent writer on China, .
Dennis. BLOODWORTH, holds a good view of Bubject's Scratches: on the Mind. .

6. Subject's mina vas

Te Subject: now-seens: permanently settled with MIT, having bought” _
& bme at 9 Farlow Road, Heuton, Subject hosts there at pool-side
“seminars” on ‘Saturday afternoons, with MIT faculty friends and journalist

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“with foreign students save for an occasional adult forcign graduate

_ Student. We.bope, considering Subject's background, that he will prove ;
with WUSPARROW/1's guidance to be a Profitable unwitting spotter and .

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“BORN: Sept. 19, 1910, - _
a marrivd_Yiola Babinec fe Juno 20, 1910, NYC, NY
ees er Brit _Shanghs , NSopE: 14, 1932
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. os Aug., 1965 to presvat, t, 86 Far Farlow Rd., " Newton, Masa. ;
dJiily, 1953 to Aug., 1965 . Hise.

_.. Fab., 1944 to July,.1953, 933 Central Pk. Wost, NYC, RY
“i o>" Sept., 1941 to Peb., .1944, 4938 Newport Ave., zrtondanip ‘Ate.y Md.
- +" 1940 to Sopt., 1941, 72 Pk. Torraco West, yc, uy
1837 to 1940, 40 Monroe St., BYC,- RY

_ EDUCATION
oo George Washington a. S., NYC, 1923 to 1926

- SSR: 08-03-4029

EMPLOYUENT: ,
1953, Masa. Inst. of Tochnology, Camb, Mase., acadomie, research

1943. to 1950, Rewsweek, DC, CBI, Pacific, SE Asia, NYC, reporter,
. war corres. assoc. editor -
, 1943, Lookhoed Aircraft Corp., WDC, radio writor,
pif -1940 to 1943, Colunbia Broadcasting Co., NYC, WHC, writer
I -- 1934 to: 1933, self esployed, Poking, China, writer .
1932. to 1934, Havas Nowa Agency, Shanghai, China, news editor
1931 to 1932). China Press, Shanghai, China, city oditor
-! 1930 ‘to 1931, Shai Evening Post, Shanghai, China, reporter
_ 1930;. Honolulu Advertisar, Bonolulu, . TODOT EOF - So

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: FOREIGN ‘TRAVEL: ; ‘
Lo ‘China, 1930 to 1935, Travel, work, writing
lenbeweee + China, Bursa,. india: -1944, to 1945, war corres. Nowsweek
} PI, India, Indonesia, 1949 to 1949, Musswook acsignsent
i Puillippines, . 19580 to 1950, cover Baguo coaferonce /
. Buropo Mainly UK, 1957 to 1957, travel, vialt. university
- Czech., Israel, aete 1960 to 1960, ecademicd. Feacareh | Proje

; Malaya, PY., otc. (1963 to i9e4,

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Aug., 1965. ‘to: prosant, 96 Farlow Rd., Newton, Mags.
July, 1953 to Aug:, 1985° Yass.

.Feb., 1944 to July, 1953, 339. Contral Pk. Host, NYC, RY .
Sept., 1941 to-Feb., 1944, 4938: Newport Ave., Fridadship Hts: , ud.
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- | war corres. assoc. gaitor .
. 1943, Lookhoed Aircralt: “Corp., WIC, radio writer, :
_ 1940° to 1943,.Columbia Broadcasting Co., NYC, WDC, writer
. 1934 to 1935, self omployed, Peking, China, writor os
1932 to. 1934, Havas News Agenoy, Shanghai, China, nows editor -
. 1931 to 1932, China Preé Shanghai, mea city” editor .
1930 to 1931, Shai & ete B EN
1930, Honolulu Adyor ; 3 es

FOREIGN TRAVEL:
‘China, 1930 to 1935,
China, Burma, india, ;
PI, India, Indonesia,{:
Phillippinos, - 1950. ro 1
.Burope Mainly OK,. 105m;
Czoch.,; Israel, India}
Malaya,- PI., otc. : 1865

RELATIVES: |
'. ° Father, I. Robert Iszaca, deceased

Mother, SoxSic Dorlina, decoased !
: Hite, Viola. Robinson Isaacs, dob 1910, “sa
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ADORESSUS: : {
Aug., 1965 to prosoat, 26 Paslow Ed., Novton, Macs.
July, 1953 to Aus, £905 245 ;
Fub., 1944 to Juz, 1953, 233 Contra. Wost, NIC, NY.
Scpt., 1922 to Med., 1041, 4923 9 Novuort Aavo., ¥rionds ship Hts., Md.
1949 to Supt., 1612, G2 Fz. Coxoace weak, inc, NZ
1937 to 1940, 40 Lonroo’ Ss., alc, .
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of Tec=xology, Canad, Hans , Acadante, regcarch

: 1953, Lace, last,
boo. 1943 to 1950, Howovdeds ,. Woo, CEL, Pacific, SE Asia, Wye, soporter,
. war corres. ansoc. editor :

1943, Lookhoed Ad rezatg Covr., WHC, radio writoz,
1940" to 1044, Colunbia | Broa cersiine Co., NYO, HES, writer

1934 to 1535, szolf orploye Paine, China, writer

r26 Mowe! to eoney, Baaghas, Ghina, news editor

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1032 to 195-1,
1931 to 1952, Chica Pros
1930 to 1931, Suai Even

1030, Honolulu Advorticcs

3, Suargaal, China, city editor (¢niwa sein)
ing Post, Shanchat, China, reporter
Ly zonolulu, sopoyter : :

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, FOREIGN TRAVEL: ; ; . mo :
China, 1930 to. 1835, Travox, work, writicg. . :
China, Burma, Yadia, 1944, to 19: “45, wa> cozros. Neweweok Ss

. PI, fodia, indozesia, 1949 to ‘1949, Nowswook assignozent -
: ~PaLllippines, 2550 to 1956,. cover Baguo conferosce : :

Europo Mainly Ux, 1957 to 1937, teavol, visit university re
Czcch., Israol, indiz, 1369 + to' 190, agadonich research project — re

. dalaya, PL, ctc., 1963 to 1964,.

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RELATIVES:
. Father, I: BoLert deees, deccased
' Mother, Sophie Bo> din, dsceased
Wize, Viola Bobiazon ‘Yeaaca; dob 1910, Sane

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SUBJECT: “ISAACS, Herold Robert |

being conducted by the Communisis in China.

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TO: , United States Clvil Service Commioaton

Attention: Mr. Joseph G. Campbell

FROM: Deputy Director for Plsas

1, Reference ia made to your request dated 14 Soptembor 1955.
Tho {lles of this office contain considerable information concerning
Subject., the galieat elements of which | are summarized below. :

2. According to undated information trom a rellatte aource,
Subject horn 13-Septémber 1910 in New York City, arrived in Shanghal,
Chiaa, from Manila, Philippine Islanda, in December 1930. Firat
employed in Shanghai by the English language daily, Evening Poat and

. Mercury, Subject became aggoclated 2 few weeks later with the China

Press, with which he remained until May 1931. In June 1931 Subject.
traveled up the Yangtze River’ with the British Communist, Cecil Frank

’ GLASS, a suspected egent-for the Third International in China. Also —

in 1931, Subject.became the Shanghni secretary of the Comite liters
nationale Pour la Defense de Paul et Gertrude RUEGG (NOULENS), a
committee, with Headquarters in Berlin, formed to aid the defense of

‘the NOULENS against char gea of eapionage perferred by the Chinese

Government. Subject was in correspondence with Wu MUENZENBERG, —
President of the Committee and en active agent in Germany for the Third

: ‘Taternational. Suvject was also known to be in contact with A gnoa

SMEDLEY tn Shanghai during the same period. On 14 September 1932
in Shanghai, Subject married Viola ROBINSON, an Ameriéaao citizen

“porn 10 June’ 1910 in New York City. Miss ROBINSON wao believed to
_have been connected with Communist activities ia the United States
and in China. Correspondeuce ‘between her and Subject prior to their

rharriage indicated that they were both sympathetic | to activities

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. 3. According to predecessor organization information, Subject:
was aloo employed ag a otaif writer for the Hovas Newe Ageacy in
i Shanghai during the period 1930-1935 and woe a member of the Society -
of Friends of the USSR ead of the China League for Civil Rights.

4. An undated feport from an unknown source indicated that
‘Subject had turned against the Stalinist Government of the USSR, and
had become e Trotskyite (probably during the 'mid-1930'a). Friends
of Subject stated that even during tho height of hia Trotskyist career
he neves necepted money from aay group, that he wae open and above
beard, and that.he never engaged in any conspiracies to overthrow
established government. They also indicated that Subject waa .
attracted to communism by gheer identiem. kmmediotely etter Pearl .
Harbor, Subject broke with the Trotekyite group es he had trokan
with the Corsmuntatond began writing prepaganda for the United
States Government. ; , ‘ I

_ 5, According to Source of paragéaph 2, Subject woo é war :
correspondent in China during World Wer U for Newgweek. In July -
1945-he waa refused entry into China by Chinese’ Nationa lat authorities,

presumably aa a result of anti-Notionalist articles he wrote for Newee

week. In 1949 Subjoct waa Special Featureg Editor fof that magagine, —
st 152 West 42nd Street, New York City. . Ha was the author of several”
books, including No Paaca in Asia and The Tragedy of the Chisage

- Revolution. i

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‘6. Subject'a present political beliefs ate unknown to thie office.

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TO: Assistant Chief of Staff, Intelligence

Department of the Army
Attention: Chiof, Counterintolligenco |
Branoh Security Division |

FROM: - ‘Deputy Director, ‘Plans
SUBJECT:. ISAACS, Harold Robert:

1. Roference io made to the request. received on”

14 October 1963 from Lt. Whipple concerning Subject,

With. yespdct. to the apecific questions posed" dn the
requeat, Eubjoct is tho author of a number of books,

including. No Penoe jn Asin, Fivé Yoars of Kuomintan :
' Reaction, and Ino Tragedy. of tho Chinese Revolution.
The fifes contain no foyireation concerning Subject's

. evaluatod ‘information based on several predecessor

'. organization reports, -
ing Subject’ is contained in our SODB 20568, dated 2.

- teaching at the Massachusetta Institute of Technology; .

hovever they do contain the following Bummary of une

Additional information concern-

December 1949, subject:-- Harold Robert. 1saccs, a copy
ok which is attached fer your. retention.

_ a. Subject was employed as a staff writer for
the Havas News Agency in Shanghai fron 1930-1935,
“He was, also-editor and publisher of the China Forum,

- & communist periodical, fron. January 19 ‘Oo an.
\specified dato. In’ July 1932 ISAACS wrote and

published the abovo-cited Five Years of Kuomintang. . o
Reaction, a.136-page d1ludtreted Book oF Commnice |.

nature. While in Shanghai he.was a member of Tho
‘Society of Friends of tho USSR (Shanghai Branch)
and The China League for Civil Rights.

; b. In 1933 Shanghai authorities listed Eubject's
‘wife, Viola ROBINSON, . as & suspect Soviet agent. re-
siding in Shanghai, Prior to their marriage oa 14 vos
Septenber 1932, ISAACS atated in a letter to Hiss .
_ ROBINSON that he had definitely turnad "Red." All
‘the menbers of the ROBINSON family were described as

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ay In duly 1933 tho Nanking Government ordered
the Municipality.of Greater Shanghai to. teke drastic
measures to etop.the propaganda appoaring in a : :
number of publications including the China Forum, ag meme
published by Subjuct. Subject's magazine allegedly ,

‘pubiished Communist propaganda; in this connection s
protest vas to bo lodged against hin with the Anerican

. Consulate,. a

- a Bubjeat: was described as- a "self-confessed
— Commun ist!" in 1933. The ‘folloving yoar he vrote an
” article entitled "I Break With Tho Chinesa Stalinists"
which appeared, in. the September-October 1934 edition —

“of The New ‘International a Communist prepaganda
ergan pablis hed: in: New, York. oe

2. An undated report fron an | unknown source | indicated
, ‘that Subject had turned against tho Stalinist Governsent -
. . of the USSR, becoming a Trotskyite(probably during the nid-
1930's), Friunds of Subject stated that even during tho .
height of his Trotskyist career he never accepted money
from any. group,. that ho was’ oper and above board, and that
be:‘never engaged in any conspirseios to overthroy established
gov. rnmeat. They also stated that Subject was attracted to -
Cottunisn by “sheer idealisu," Immediately after Pearl
‘Harbor, - T8AACS. broke with the Trotskyite group as he had
- beoken with the Communists and began writing propaganda
' for the tnited States Govornnent,

° s. ‘According to a roport dated 25 Juno 1951 from a
fairly relinble source, Subject served at that time as a
Ford Foundation advisor on Far Bastera Projects. ; ;

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To . Chief, NBA DATE 5. May.1956_____- - fe .

“wow. _ Chief of Station, Karachi a oe. : ,
{ GENERAL Operational /INTEL ‘- ce ; ,

: \srecine Far Eastern Association Sth -Annual Meoting,

ee ‘Request for Background and Operational Information

1. The program of the 8th Annual-Mecting of the Far Eastern “
. Association, held in Phildelphia 3 - 5 April 1956, has just .
arrived here, It indicates that the association haa already
. taken daciced steps towards its announced expansion into the
, °- South Asian field. Tho station assumes that Headquarters
\ + eévered the mooting and can get access now or later to copies ft
: of monographs, notes on proceedings, and so on. . ot

2.. The following items, keyed to the progran, would seon to
be of interest to this aes 1f Headquarters can get thoms

A. On 3 April, Zakye Eglars "The World View of the
Punjabi Villager". . . 7
‘|. (Botes This is quite likely the East Punjabi,
but it should nave some validity for Lahoro as
well as for Delhi.): ; - _

: . Jo B; On the same day, a Pakistan Studies Organization ot ot +

ook 2 oT a Meeting was held at 1700.. It would be useful to .. : . oe .
_ wo _ know who is interested in Pakistan studies (both

mola individuals and organizations) and what lines . :

they aro thinking of working on. oo : . 5

 G. On 5 April, all the itens. of a "South Asian Mis-
'. @ellany" stiould bd , considerable interest,

"T “"particularly-Stanley"aron's "The Future of East::..

- - Bengal’. Hydécker ha& some early drafts of the —

. - HaroldWsaacs study, but they are too early to -

2 May 1956 . | * provide vsoful material; this project. (at -
KRH/wrg: ~ sents) M 5) 1s one that Headquarters should moni-
To tor closely, however. 1 rr ad -
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dateal 39 sigugt 1955; ecptioned - -O3 abovoy © our raforencs CL CUl254z.

a. dttnchsd. for’ your information isa copy cf a otter: _ : ;
et ad eddrvaved “to ths post affico box rantionsd : tg
iu thd referenced mimraniuz., “ho letter vas signed. ty subject ea :
: . . POLY, hia feminine psucdonya, It should iso be exploainsd that - '
ro : Caglich is not aubjecttu native lengusyo; thorofcro, the cramer 7

ani opelling uzod Ly subjoct in his Jotters wra to bo expactod. . . :

3. Thiy offleo interprota mabjuct's > Lettor ‘ey follewas

; - Aunt Josephine is gostei: cA, “with whoa subJoct bas | i ao
beon in contact the pest ucverel xontha ani who nes been imloctri- - ; poof.
nating eubject. with loftisl idcolesy. ilu bas not adulitted to

*, oubject that ho to 0 Commist,- although ia bia convoragtiona with
‘ gudject hy oticka vory ¢elosa to the curroat Lins. of tho Pailipping

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“to tho ‘Burvai. . ot .

a, Vriclo MANDEL io procchly.- tho leto Failippive “rosident
Manuol CUA Xu, uho uponsored. Jesa LATSG!s ontry into the Lnited -
States in 1937 whom LAISANG ctulled at Colussia Univoraity,

“Willies CAMTRty Jr. has rot yot boon ddantified, ty this office. -

: Dat da. PLILILIC, fry is probably Or. FUsdolta PALI,
foreor Associate Profecsor, cf Mucasnicy at ths University of tho
Philippinas. PsILILIO recolved his BY ixvn the University of tha
Fhilippinsa and Lis bs. and Priv. at the Uaiveraity of Michigan.

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views ex eccamiry ta cource prolelly hie proatcat ceaize ‘is to
resida pesmonsntly in tha United Status. Al af it is known. that
PANLILIO waa on friendly tercs wlin wooo Late Ahore fa no recom
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legt hia Usd. eltisensity in 1952. theory igs no inforcstion in tho |

flew of. thia offices vhicn ivdfcatga that L/DEZ Bea returnsd to
Kauail. “For eldifienual uvorention concerning Uist, reference tz
made to @ mousremiun to tho Reranu, dated 23 Fovorssr 1349, cubjoots
Hidexsdo Wis (uka i ileaxdo LANCE My our referancy 5O DD-30507. . _

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“Hilo No. 105-52501), Fros tho -vording of cubject!s Vetter this ~
. offlea asg22s3 that Ecliarer CUYUGAT da cra thet. tha: -Foderal |
“Burenu of Duvestigeation iy investigating Wor Cu MGs, Tt ateo’
eppasra that Baltesor CUXUGAT ‘gavu cubjoct a lotter to daliver
personally to tla Urother Hor CULUGAN, possibly to avoid ¢ pail
intercept by the Birowi. It should be noted tnat eubje Set stated
that bo mailea tha’ dotter instead. :

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FBI DOCUMENTS AS ‘FOLLOWS:

DATE: 26 MAY 1955. 2
_ CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL —
SUBJECT:. HAROLD ROBERT ISAACS |.
FBY FILE #: 100-286243 (BUREAU)

DATE: 19 MAR’ 1954 .
CLASSIFICATION: CONFIDENTIAL
SUBJECT: “HAROLD ROBERT ISAACS
FBI FILE #: 100-286243 (BUREAU

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views, ‘at which time I advised Fisher. thaht he had known that. subject was a Commrtist |
as early as the 1930's in Peking, China. Taaacs stated thatthe subjcet had worked for :
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“8 ghung Fea" for Quina waa epelled "chun: kua"— an. n extraaniinary effect |
_ frankly explaining the publication’ J] amorahtpe mt

1 A ha; py eriing has been written in the case of Yorria TRE: Olnans .
foraer Cormunist who is now secretary of the Gonaral Kose Temcrial iiospital-
-0f Denver, lia.has beon Praised Ln taphinzton for "disclosing hia Cocnnlot
past’, and his board ef direatora has voted confiaence in hin and oontinuod

‘hia in-his Jobe. oo .
2. ‘No doubt all this ts fitting and proper tut 1% doenn't anaror the

Question of why nobody in Doayer. 90023 to have known anything shout
Appelnants Red=tinzed pant, or: ahy. there was anythin: ocnsattonal about his... -

” #orelation of it in Nashinzton. tile the police rtate ts rinhtly, onathona,

to Anerfonn citizens, 1% seeus remarkable that official records should’ not.
be in existence and ruayonshly accessable to ‘pronle with reason: te chook ” "

2. on such a point ao, past Communtet sarvico,.

. 3s The potrit about Appalann- te- not that he aid anythin: particularly |
reprehensible, lait that-what ho did was quite Ja the open, Acoording to the
Tashinton | tontimcny be sarved the Communtat: party, apparently without

" gpeolal concealment, in Ruania, Germany. and other points in Luroyo, | poing: .

aroumt the xorld’ between 1924 arid 1931, He sourht to roliovo’=ix and

a Grace“yrantch in the editorship of a Shanhad Hy Lish-lancwiave Communiot
ve “majazino, “the Voice of hina", in 1937, he testified, tit didn't fet off '

‘hia ship in Shanhat becaune of tha hostilitics there at the tine,.

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_ Puthlesa. Cormauntat operations throurtiont the world, I tua. in Chan hal when

fighting broke out there betweon Jajinn and China on awit. LY, 1937, and can
teatify that wo had three months of dinsexiong warfare before the carpaign
moved dninnd. vuring that poriod a pood many people. left ‘fer obvious.
Feasons, tut some came in, and it Aliht be preawied.that an accredited
agent of international .cormnion yould.at leant have paused ‘in nearty Kobe

or Honrkong till things calmed dom a little. Tossibly the Coreunists- are

an aubjoat to qualis ‘about personal sof’ oty as anyone olscor nore 40.

5. About "The Voto of China" thore could hardly be any L2lueten in

. the nind of anyone «ho had. cared to pay the olizhtest attcntion to it.

Each iosisa bore a virtuol advertisendnt of ita Communist alleriance on ite
“front cover, to those faitliar, with mnthods of converting Chinese inte.

. English, Tho nane "Voico of China" appoared in beth En‘lish. and chinose,
end in. tho ‘chinese a peoullor Soviet~oripinated aysten of Rasanization waa: .
MBed, 60 that. what La” ordinarily, ‘vy conventional “ate system, written ~

_. 6s Dut what was nore, “HareldToarca, the editor’ ho rreceded the
Granichos, had done considerably more than was conveyed by preas. dispatches

. {Fon tho Fashingten hearings of the House Un-/meriean Activitios Comittoes .
Theses: said he waa "believed to havo deviated Tras Corsainiss policy” whereas
in fact he shallonied with the Chinese Communi sta ana their ‘Yosoou patrona

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Thina™ at if anja eitoer in Gr out of official fe had previously
aufferod any illusicns as to its nature, Taanes* art! clewpublistiod alees
whore than in tho "Volco", of course=-certalniy sheuld havo dispelled thom,

"9%, Tho Granicha eeea to have lived quictly fa Shanchat ant vero little
knorn, which uniler the elrewtances was hardly aerprisin: since they vores -
ownning an obviously: Coreaintat orsan, -Chian: Kainelea'g forces could not
modile with than openly, for at that tino Shan-hal tas an. international .
eity oparated under extraterritoriality. Ihit-t? tinnalist accret police
‘did“oroate gcse trouble fer the “Voice” aul tira Consul Cencral Clarence Ey
” \Qfiisia was. allesmiy reprinaided by the State Depart-~ent in 1997 for not.
- doing more to holp thea as Arericans, | Techriically ther were. entitled: to
Mill Anorican protect fon.tut Gauss, now with the inzert-xport. hank in
Wanhin,ton, De ta, was-a sort of Old Curmuireon ef the Shanihad Avorioai- |
community ond it eons that he thourht it his moral ‘oNLiration to let thon’
fry in any troublo they Alcyht got into aa Commatat a:ents, Uaiss can't =~
_havo auffered preatly. for this in the eyra of his superiors, for. ha ™=s
later promoted to arbassador both to China: and to Australiag ——

. 8. This “backrround dad sano pragont importance since an *grorloan
mazéaine te dein: o;erated today in Comuntat Shanchal, which tolerates no”

sonny Witter -urell, and it etaycd on ‘after most other Ancrican ontorprises==
Anoluding in dally Shanchat Lvening, Font and Meroury,; edited by nysolf—hod
shut dom acnl Airorican ofvicials had left Red shinse, .

~~ QJ, Rofore they dopartod, these offietads hat reason to corpilo an.
axténsivs filo on what 1& now the China Onthiy Review. One. incident which .
fo. iciom to hava irked.thaa wos the iloview'a treatcent of the case of. .
Williaa Olive, American consular official, in tho. seamcr of 1949 acon after -
the Communists had taken over. Citve bliuulored into a traffic conflict wth
tho Cormuniat police, wna. taken to first one and then a second pelioe
otation,-and in the courses of several daya' ixprisamment he waa severoly
“beaten with fiata and guavutts, kicked and otherwise maltrentel. Foroll'a
‘Roviow blandly frofeased to havo little” information om the matter but pave.

'.. @ account unfavorahlo to Clive, Khon consular officials asked. Powell to
. 6ép0 to tho consulate. ent look Olive over and get tha ML story, he failed -

" t@ show tip. This and othar matters ware recoriod in-sane détatl but in view

. whathaw ‘those dotalls will ever be hauled out of tha flleas

10. Noro recently, conlos of tho Roview: havo’ been elanted otronely _
‘anainst the Americans and the United Kations cause in Xorea and one daaus
. editorially spoke of tho United States aa "tha enexy.* - It should ‘not be-
' difficult tod preserve continuity in following such a case cf American . .
pro-Coninuniat activity abroad, though nothing ooald bo dona to Porell Unless

canlid elucidation of the Comnuniat finnanelal tackin: of the “VYolce of

eritici{on or opposition, . dricinally prosiiationalist under the late... we ele
Je Be. Vorell, thas Been Crlonily toward the cacntAiste under hig non,- coe

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7 Oy 19 June 1952; ISAACS ‘av hho friend GLASS took a “trip up -the wa Sea ty
tate ‘trip ISAACS wrote his fi gna: 28, Viola ROBINSOM, that he had Seolded wo ° ten ” Roi
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dog: cess $ 337 Lana 478 Tiendang Road }, Shanghai: eTSAACS openedly arated be “Fae mann - ian
ager of. the @ printing oo and emed kG of ite shared, Lf ae
at Gar 7; as 1933} LSdACG ond his wife Viola RCBINSON whan he had married: tri Sopt hye
- 1932 Lets Gasnghad for Japan cn the 35 Kagasaki Marui On. 1b 6 ang, they Proceaded ° te
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serared sonliection with thie Agency arcud Dec 1733. we aed eres

[a ‘Ba Dea 19a93'rsMes was ‘ta Poochow té gether lat hand infe re ‘the omy f foraed
‘Pealplate Revolutionary Goverment of tas Nepudlie of Cainas4

we “In-the apriag of 193b, SE SRO tM ee ot ;
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Shanghat ‘fran Loa Angolegs-‘Dur.ng their stay in Jhangial they reatded at the Metro
pol llotel Annek.0n 20 February they left: Shangiat for Fort Said en route to Marseilies
~e@ the 3S Rawalpindi. . : 7 a : a to

On & Appt 1936 ISAACS under the pen nate “of Lo Sea had an articlo roblisbed da.
ye New Wilitant,” the organ of the BY District Yorker's Party, The article was an
attack on Stalin and 1as entitled’ ® Stalintern ready to embrace Chisn Kal Shexaypet

-O*fteer Chinese Red Aray in return for resurrection af disasterous: 2927 bloaj®. " -;

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& Eansas City, born 169}.This wis sono tia after April 1932¢. oe,

FE Hame O.F,.QLA99 «= Cecil Prank GLA33- —_ :
Born 25 March 1901, BirmbAghas ing lait

Peseport British passport, # 94153, osued 5 Jan 1931 4n Pretoris,South Africa’
Pol Affiliatiow-Member of the CP © ° nn Te
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- -Balieved to have laft ingland du thy carly 19200 for South Africa where he reaided
: at Johannesburg for many years, Se ee :
f. 07 Avmived-tn Shongaat from Dares May 19320
_On 12.d0ne 1931 nade a trip tévough'up the Yodgsiod Yangtoze with Hareid ISS ;
fe Amertean Cozmuist and welter-ferm ase oditer of the China Forugy A letter written by OP
f° ISA.C3 to hin fdances, Kiss Viola ROBINSON, during this ‘trip conteined inforsatten

B dhat ISAACS had decided to turn "Red" ag a result of his canvorsation with GLASJE"° 8
f: Im Sopy 2932," GLASS begens a manber of the “MMULNS Defense Camitteo" ani tzo |
conths later was appointed Shanglial Represert ative of thy Anglo“ipiatic P-alogeaph _
. Ageney{Angasta) a news agency with #0 in H,rbin, which position he held wAtil 19335”.
*. In 40gl933; lis was living in Rotn 510,9 1276,Horth Sscohuen Road, Ghasighad . ae

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hies .om the part ef both end a ,
" Tsaacst Antenticn of Joining the cr oo

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“Qn. juguat, 1933). the Tauces Left. Shanghat’ for Japan and an 6 Aug 1993
ceeded ) Dairen, yFeturning to (Shaaghal cs rail } 26 acgust. 1933. :

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~ Marat Babar tsiscs. was born in Now York City en 3 Semtenbor 1010 of fers

{ "dean parents. Pan father has been reported as 9 decidedly af the camersial ‘type. .. A i

-- : ; TiaAcs ha: ‘bean daveribod as intelligent, erties) orwoas- and nervoualy organized;
7 Lite ‘le fe Known ecneerhing the activities of: 154405 prior to. bia-arrival in

China fea Manila of 10 Docendar 2930), boorerg we. Visited te ‘dics anneal mol

date- an Shaighss,, le reported to have anbartasaed nis Bon, ‘tn ‘the Préacnce of frieads”

by a dating?” the ‘Latter about trying to make monay on real astiate hilo in lea "

Angeles batere’ going to Chins> a a ree os tt he

ae . Tho actual dato. when Ceci). Prank GLASS-ehd Harold 15\ac3 Fe not- “loon, ‘bat: 4

, mast: havo bead shortly, ator the arrival of GEASS din Shanghal in Kay) 1932, “for ta: : os |
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* June 191 Sake ina GLASS ade. a “trip up the Tongtase togethers. . &, ao a
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¥, bas. boeit Stated that. TS.AACS baoane- Antersatod in. CoumthiLen with specific’ re. ?
“ /4@ has bean ateted that
latden to Caine, but  lottera writtes: by. Tsaacs to tila 2 Fancasy Viola AOBTNSGH,

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mora) Fendbaaniaatiat ° “ISAACS ‘becane titerosted in ‘auina BR pottla
reLatton to utnay) it hag also bean tated that Aettare betwacn T34acg and tds
| Hlanee,- Vials ‘BOSTHSAH, widen were Mitton daring the. ‘Tangtare trip Andtoated. Gen:
munist “apapathted "Sa thie ‘art af be boty and ona of the’ ‘Letters entained the ‘Anforw,
‘matioa that Blues” had deesdea’ to tors, a Rod®* as a Posult, of his’ conversationa"iith |

' ASA you aro axara, TSAASS and GLAss returned to Shanghat in ‘August 1932 and too |
“un residence at lee Hathatwad Read, on Soptacbor 1991; both men are rep- reed to have

vacone marbard of £ the ROLLSAS Dofoase tormitieo, ASAAS bata tha 0 Seoretarys

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ISAAgs 4s aise reported to have been a raxor of the Society of Friends of tue USSR,

On hia arrival An China, TS4.C3 folned the ddftorial ataf.” of the Shanghal *
Evening Toat and the Morcury.. TS. AACS 1 Waa also enployud with the Havas News Agency,
whi: h connestiaa ho io roported to hava savered sround Decuaber 19335 . .

“Tait aliéo started and lates docame editor and’ publisher of the * China Porunse =

It ia believed tc: have ‘been
twee A nonthly Bnglish danguage Papst - -Lasued at first af 6 cormeroial joo froa the

. Mereury, Piogpg, Praa’ October 1 1932 oa At. eas printed by tho Level Publis ing Company; te

" Ine3%' 33 Lane 472, ‘Phendong Road. TSAATS is reported to have openly stated “that *

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a Of ‘naa been stated that ‘thoes who knew I8iAc3 th Shenghad Zour’ no reason te ‘nto

‘he wag a pay. atte man. for. ‘Averiean Comseists, and that during the firet cart. of, ada 7

. stay aa Ghing,-be wag not 4 follower of Trotshy.. Homaver, he to reported to bave fin .
aly becdes ooavincod that tho taties of the Chinese Cen unista, were “wrong and that -

: ‘Trotany’ sas Bent $3 urttictstng tinder ead tie Soriat Goverunent under Stolta. : ts .
“therefore Veete on article. entitled; *, z Brook mith soda t:9 Stalintate,® in waten

. aneng other abinga;: ho te ‘reported to ‘hava stated that tho expensg of publishing the , ‘

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ment. Bay. are aise reported ¢ to have ated thot I 428" ‘was attracted to Coarnunion

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wo ao nae boen further reported that iniediotely after Peart arbors, 2 1sAx03 rok
withthe, Trotaigite arollp, ‘ag he shad broken with tte Communit’ a and" bean” mrtg /

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° «pepe is dn the lute 193007" TSPAGS rotumed to tho Unttad Statoas-By-bbebadt
Unt the fall of Pranoo, ho was: employed by tho Havas News Agcncyein October 1943;. .
of ADS»: ba’ mas Working for Hewerosk Hagaadng wa Nagningvony?. Ce - ie acidress ab t hat,

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liefs and mm activities of the individuals rared below, Durdin, |
who travels continously and. extensively in the’ Far East, was finally located in Djakartal. .
Indonesia,. -and on 1s Nov, 51 was interviewed, in accordance eith your request, and the.

Tollowing information elicited,

2.” Dardin stated he loiew-risthing definite regarding the Present activities and alleded

BASSLER- BUCHMAN and George : Alexander Kennedy, and that” € could furnish info. on their

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DURDIN sata: that he-knows Harold Isaacs well and that he last saw him at the confere
aguido in the FPhilipnines, which was held in November 1947. He stated that THER .
“was formerly with NEWSEEEK but that. he now believes he ig agree lance lecturer |

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CLASS: -CONFIDENTIAL .,

SUBJ: PAUL RUEGG, WAS: HILAIRE NOULENS, #
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7 November 1951

Adatotant Director for Policy Coordination
Attention:. Security Officer os an . —
Chief, Special Security: Division . ; : . ; vo

 lawsid . Esa0es,

. _ 1... Reference {a made-to a memorandum fron your office dated OEE ee ey
'-~,3.July 1951 in which you requested that a Special Inquiry be com _ ae
ducted. to resolva information ccncerning an allegation that Sub- .
- Joct ia sympathetic to and/or connected with Commnist activities,

. 2. .On 31 August 1951, Mr. Kenneth Patrum of the Security
Office was advised’that partial results have been received: as . .
4 result’ of inquiries at several national agencies, The partial - Spe
infortiation reflected :that Subject had been connected. with at ae
. least tvo factions of the Communist Party while living in the oe
Far East; It was: suggested that extreme caution be used in con-
tacting or associating with the Subject, : : :

' 3, -“Thie office has completed tlie investigation of the Sub-
ject, which inoludea: a check of recorda of the appropriate Federal
agencies, As a result of this investigation, the files of thia
office contain a great ‘deal of information concerning Subject's
association with questionable organizations and.individuals, .

' Although Subject -has denied’ any current: ‘activities with the Comm--
nist, Party, his. associations and activities are highly questionable

_ and his political : sympathy -has ‘not been unqualifiedly resolved at, :

“ ‘the present tima,. 0... ae ce

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: Pecoumended. that extreme caution be exercised ‘An dealing with the. = = es
Subject. “Under no -circimatances should Subject be contacted, vith.

‘Fegard to possitie use by this ageicy prior to receiving a final. =.
security determination by this. office, wot a

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Foqartes Pat Ui iurtin te nob nou da Luce Baty, orl t2 ost axpootet to bo thesd ~~
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Mat a prucis of Big Lap.tch oO Wkic Avilebls TOR Mitalle Dock: osetia |
(a regeecctative ef tna lrurny. sounty o-Sles, if 3 ara:lodle), and
ho lsturvies Lurcin and Sotora yeu ot ha Tyadita, . ;

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Pigapal, agsing ag oft ouitar ef the “oulnasPresg,” AC tant ‘ttep he ua eats

to hawt shar ao agarteact ait Frpds Joeeph SL Dulari, ete is detart ted as os
‘Amortean witioon tran ta thing ae B'Lisd rayerter, According to tra internat, —
“LESGRATT wae af thot ties @ elec aspoctota of Zareld FRarGi, who ene walé ey
have boon esyiquw:‘ts Vharanet ba 2683 as cattery af thy “Skiing feavan*, Goeemitsa = a
+ 88 6 Ceammist plication, A TAERA sore of mina PELLSti Ake? bas wt1bed *
. hatin, Ly 2405 ara's “netortops radleal aypathiow” sad ona suspected; .7

-, Of Dodng sa agent Co- the ThuNt intenalenl, . Ce

Soo. Be TM dee, “arcrant Peprssartatives interiewd ae Merrig Lduis ATLsay - |
. in Peavey, Calero; A’TLISIAL edolttad See ae heen 9 CPnetar fen lozdeg - - 2
" 1937, Le states that in LISS and 1636 ta: Durdia is Shawal, and tisk
‘Gaping Toot pariod, ha, Harald L.AAGS, Prem Ada ans Abnaerusp BUMAg,
fre partly hal’ meotings at the hoe of Tile. iantin in Shuchat, Prenk alady
io @ Britian) eud tect Precoutly living 4: Les Areuleas BWC XAT 4a Er
* tho also itwes fa Les Arseleng ANTLSY described [24003 end GL0S3 ag .
TRA Syitea Ln 10Siedd, ant duzerdbed ECC 2 “as 9 ferng? easber af the _ ;
Soule? loeth League in the Ue3e AL) TIT deromant, af wale relic ttep > |

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4 In addition to the above tndivtdausls, Dardin is ales foported to have
Been an sequatrtarce in Baongml about. 1932055 cf Oserce Aloxanist RPeHR OT, whs
ia preasmtiy o.ployed ct Yale Ualvorsity. KZNNCUY veg ea oxperdintcws of
TBAACH anc wia aloo reported to have beun sesoctated with "Lifwelag croupya”

bal at that tine. . or,

6. fb view of the above ZASSGA7F dsaires tha? Durdin be interricsed ~
Qe goon 49 por sible relative to the.agg iis sequaintans and sapocictian.

these Indtvidimls en dbchalf

of tha CP or the faird Interret! onal, Se Rs ‘eyy eey beve teen engages in -

‘esyi rage sotivitics om belalf of the Sevist Union, either curtas tha carly .
: 1980%e in China, or at ay subsequent periods : "ot ,

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‘ducted by this Bureau, w are destroda of ottaintag eoptaia inforas. ton
froa tr. Tillman Dardin, who 12 presentiy located o/o. iteng Keng, Tigey . a
Standard, 108 Windsor flonso, Viotordas Hong Seng. Fs would @ sppregiated .--
Lf v3 would have one of reer resresontatizves interviow ir, Durdin aoe
Fong Korg along tha lima ec%- out bolez.  - ; : i a:

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ESR e re gee pyr9et.

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Attantions Majer Dimral 0. Bean |
. Offices of Sppetal Opare tions

Podsral Buvoau of Investigation

TITAN DIRDIA Py
In cormetion with on afftetal invostigation ting cone | ce

Por your information, Durd‘n is a furaign ecrreoporsioat fap

tho lve York Tines mrspepar, Ra ia an 4zcricaa ec! tiven born usreh 3,

for ths Re Yark Maso for Gany yoard, posalbly sinco at Joast tas oly 7

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of -belnis ar. arent of: the Thtre: Invernattonal, ‘$2008 wag sald to Bove oot.
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” dealt’ Ais eman, an -axerita foo presently living fa Deavar, Colorada,

and Ap,'ernn efzitted beviag teen's unmber of the Communist Perty fam —
1925 “tye 1937, “pplemss states that tn 1923 ard 1938 hs knew Dwrdin tea

i Sherchat, ont that durtog thee Period, he, Appleman, Harold losass, Srank

a slaee and AlcganderBuchrar , Frequently held meetings at the hose ;

Milman feed ts Shanghar. . . os

; a Prank Slaes ioe o-fttan cttteer, presently Living in Leg -
wow en ons Angee. Lad lfercia. Buchear {s aa American citinen @L80 presansty ;
Livtee ln goa ancelea. Horria ,anlesan described leaaca amt dlasa Qe.
“ Gretazyttes fe 1923-38, ard deacrited Puchmas as‘ Pormer maber of tig.
worminiss Yeats, Lingue fa the Unt tel States, An Lavornant of ustnewn,: -

tL relanuiifty has also reperted that duricg What verted Glags and Isaass
: WETS. By p07 bed of bein; agents for the Third Iaternatiozal in Shangkas..

. In sdditlon te the abovy individwals, Durdta is alge reparsed ©
to have been an acquaintance ir Sbongbat ta about 1932-33 of Ceorge - :
Atexamder ~enpedy, an Awerican citizen presently employed at Yalo . §
Universiuy, Merry Wad an acquaintance of Harold isaace at thas tina, ©
BBC weo-alae separ tnt to have been nesociated wits “left-ving erage” in.
Shanghat ot thet tige, | - : : : . ola

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co ., $n VAEN- of the trfornariog. indicating that Se. Durdin vag’ :
‘  Mequatated wien these Individuals. durtas tha-carly 1930%8, {t ts destoed iM
"that he be intssylawed relative to the extent of bis Scquaiztancs amd ¥
asscctatica with tte. Tclloving: Frany Joseph Hetablatt, Sarold Isaaca,-,
Pracs jlase, Alexander Suchoar, and George Alexanter Kenosay.

“Ih fe requeated that Durdin be questioned particularly as s

. ” any luferzetion he may possess concerning an Activities af these. .
intividuate os venalf of. the -omricist Party or the Thir? international
if A160 be aad viernor ne hag any latarm tion ihdiéeting any .
mete cee ; esplonage activities on debste
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'! Bletribations “Roe oo " Roforencess HANO 242 and WASH 01125

Sourco Gryptozyms Tunic-2

Renarkes

co In our last) mesoage to Tunto=2 “on 30 July we used the dscrepancy concerning Leo: - ~.
‘Mguores’ visit to NVN aa an example ina gentle lecture on the virtues of * oe oo ;
_ accurate reporting. yy 1 Auguot Tunio-2 anowered back. © Tas van obricusly take@; 070. ’
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‘Plade Acquired: Viet Nam, Hanat - Date Acquireds 1 Ausuet 51° _
Bvatuation: B53 . . " Date of Reports 2 August 51

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Sources
According: Koons! Mul, whe worke in the Viet Xinh. Xintetey of ForeLmn. Artairo, : ot
Loo Fi-uores wae in Satson in oarly ‘ASML The French ‘dd not allow Him to renain : ‘
in Saison'and ho waa forced to Feturn to France. Fisueros later wont to ‘Hong Kong a
in ‘Late “August 1950). and then procoodad. to the Viet Bac via tho Hoa Nan (F.C.r- South.
China t) road to attend the Thtra Congreve of tho*fCl. held in carly Octuber 1950,

2. There hed besn sovorai previous canes of individuals who were unable to roach Viet
Kinh territory fron Saigo: -bacause of French interference. In July 1949 kr, A. Roth,

f Biitor. of the Sunday Trituns, arrived ta: laigonh and obtained all nocebsnry paperdy = may

| the French aid not allow him to proceed because of his Pro-Cocminiet articles, Othore —

+ wore: Walter7 riggs of the Ciriotian Sclence Monitor,. Hurold‘Tonaco fron Hionemek, ond. .- z

(8. op Perel pani because he oriticized Bao Dai -in dostwards } Het).

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“MEMORANDUM FORT Pg/cs™ -\\ ~

be routed to J, Bries anstuts, Fe~1/oro, . .

“86 Juno 1852

SUBJECT - 1 Harold R, Isanea, Requeat: for an infomation
i  inmieahack on. co a

Ae Itda requested that a namechock for information be. .
sonduoted on Sudsack for the mopove of doterninin:. the valide

| Aty of charges: thet Subdoot La syepathotio to and/cr counseted

with Coommist activities,
__-Bs_ Wo have boon: tnférmod -unoffiotally that’ Adbiset is

-ourrently employed by the Ford Foundation as an adviser an
Por Eaet projocte. > Then’ ono of our covert -agénts. was recently.

“oslled upon by tho Ford’ Foundation to prosont cota susgestions

for a Far Bost program, the arent found that Subject una in-
tervated in and was to be Clogeuly. aornooted with tia program,
It ia planned that tho Pord: Foundation remains unssero of ‘tho |

CIA connection With thie covert agent.
‘3. Then tho report is somploted, the inforzation should

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ADDRESS: (Yast icioun - 148)4- 835 Contral Park Vout, ¥.Y.C.

DAGS OF BIRTH: 19107 . oe
NATIONALITY: Anertonn' Cis Ss

bosIxes CaRSRy (®) Beate writer for Havas News Agenay Se

(1630-1936)
(by: Lai tor of Ching Forum’

(a) Chey tali tor for Cito Frees, Shanghas
vo  CAdua . coe

(a). For Eastorn fae Correapondont for Kowswoote -
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{r) Aivieor to ord Vourdatton,

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Yer erale ‘ds deta, Selocted ddeumeat 6 un Major inter= ,
Meaticral cvvolcpzonts. in Far Sasts “1963 and 1047 -

: notes’ and intpoduction 18670.

Xe Feaco fer. fain = 1947. .

“tate, x of chinese Ravoluticn = 1088 -

Five Yoara of Fuo_* Man Tas Reacticr. - - 1832

- mi ther Pre: ice, - : 1936 - “Lear Trotaky wrote tho beak and:

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FT GOUAEL CATPTONTN[@, DATE OF INFO

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“he. Inclosed. is Consecutive F Exhibit Nos 32 in the documentation of the Sorgé Espionage

“Case. This, "Exhibit, consists of two related parta: I and He “he second part is.

divided into two ‘sections, A and B, because’ of ita’ bully Part I ie an index of each

personality and organization listed in Part TI. Part 1 consist of a resume of the - .

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contents of each Shanghai Municipal Police file, followed we a tabular: ating

aamene te gate hot

of the contents of the files, with page ‘references. a

Page Zhe

Isaacs, Harold Robert: G-2 Occ. #- Page.
Anti-War Congress. report, ‘mentioned in 59 ; 30-32.
10, 8-9 ,

- Burton report, mentioned in : : ; }
* (China Ferum"editor of ° oo 65 : 1
"Chinese Workers* Correspondence": .

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: Received by oe , : oh. 2 .
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“Fiev Years of Kuomintang Reaction" a .. 65 © re oe
:- Granich, ‘Evidently another. Igaacs". ee. ee - eo ae
ny Break with the Chinses Shaliniate! os ; — coos meres .
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The Juiy 30, 1932 issue of- the aN York Times", under a Shahghal ‘Dateline

of Jule 29 1932 , s&htes that Harold Ry Isaacs, an Aeri¢an citizen., was, warned

by the U, S. 3: consul in Shahghai that the We 8S. may with draw ak aixk its extra

__ territirial rights and allow him to be tried j ina Chinese Court. Téaacs, then

editor of the "China Forum", had violently attacked Chiang Kai-Shek, calling hin

among other things, a butcher. The article futher stated that iasacs | was

as associate of Agnes” Smedley, a correspondedt for Ausriicah newepapera, :

page 73. The "arch 7, 1946 issue of the New York ‘ines réflects an article

‘captioned "Broup of Americans, including writers and journalists announced

that they. had sent -aletter to Chaing Kat Shek concerning the death of Yang

. Chao, owt exployee, ‘who was 3 arrested by the Nationalists anid: ided fn prison,

; The sighers were critical of the treatment recieved by CHAO. ; Tis FOLLOWING INDIVIDU! 1

. signed the letter: —- Maxvell.S, stewart. Elicabeth Anes, Mardlitie Slade,

Alfred Kazin , Erie ‘Severeid, Richard abt, dre 8 NeoR Teaeens Agiies Smedley

“and Theordore White,

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T. SOURCE CRYP TONY!

AGNES SMEDLEY was, Ayoo, Yahoo

@. OATE PROCESSED TO. OLGSEMINATED tm

3 Dec. 1963 .
QOCLMENT'-DLSPOSITION

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_, Passport files of State Dépt. also indicate.passport. renewal application dated June
23, 1952 in which the subject listed as. identifying witnesses ~—=-subject mentioned ©
Harold R. Isaazs , who according to-information poasessed by T--1 as 'REDt —

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coneeroin; reeoks Fopert ISpacs, anca by telernune on <3 figveares . 1969,"
Soper ye Fas ¥5
. : 2. Tceeording te infcrzatioan outaiced frost a pouPce covatterad roti
oS haredd sobert [SAACS nas bern in sem lark City ot Lt cop taarer A929. be
wt vaarrived % wav han fat fron vantla in vecosber 399 and sae in rersesd§oG  ~..
of #aerioan puseport LTR be Paved vas Pest excloyes In -nancnsk by! .
the chauzngt ivenias ogt £ Sercury, an ‘ny htan loncuase dally pool laned’ a
in whan bal. Afbor a fen vente, ho Sernze ayraclated with tha Ching upe Sas a
another faclisielansuses daily ptbiteked dv chaachat, and cae with tobe ar
paper until. say 19th. la-vune af ihe gacs year 5: ada a turin un: ~
tha fangtge tlver sith Cacti Frank GLAvd,/a oritish susfsct and avnber |
of bho «ritieh Comualet Party, sunpected of being ‘an scent for the Tbed

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shanaghes dl Sun aeleai. felice os charges of asplonaga in henalf ef the Thivd

" ipteraational, Isagcs besesc tha chan nal eeerst: ry af the coatth integeo

giationale Tour la “eferas ve Taul ot tertrave 3 Teage CRMIUNS), a conalbtes

forned to aid the N2ULENSS in Licir “aefenge ecainst charges of seplonage

; peefarred ty the C: nineaa soveranent. _ cue files reflect that isss7 wag

¥S Sd eorrespoatence sith “INL 3 'RERG, the treuizent of the cosilttes

eo / > With hosdsuarters ia: Rerlic, AY UUGERG a2 aa active agent ue PRay
7 TL for the Third Tatsrnaticasd, 1S4acs jo.also xnarn.te here baeBda sontach _
(RO with semea SHEULEY fal shanghai at Lita tino wie AWS) MAwoco RY sang s

ELT: MEA OCC: COMMUNIST ALENT ? Wike cx anaro Ravgnr 1sAaacs (r0t-184g)

- Se Uh 49 ~agust 1932, tsanls yawe notice to the saer oss, fon: ulate we .

: . venoral £s shanghai of nio intences carrlace bo(sLeslVid shonin. 3, 43
ehe~ ‘mepioan citizen tern 10 Juae 91D ia tee lors. LAly ¢ 3
Ae _ (errived inv: shaashai ‘of 2S Ausust 1934 froa Vancouver, “anata, aboard the
Sele “kopreda of Asia*, and ues Li 10- seaslon of Anarioan passport 392046
: hagued tn Hea fork on ay Méy LVJ1. Tho wedding nas held on Li. “aptenter :
13a at the smerican Gononlate « verges edge SRD cd nae bellevag ten

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-- F Lhawe -OFfesporcence babro.a Jona: Ado ufss Sodia. 3 prior to Liebe ,
4 SerPlasr, .oiicates nat they wore dath ayanstnatie to aativities besag’ ‘
. Osc juelid Bb, Une Lormuniote in bins, on 2s Covegear ie, <Uee Div. Ga ; \ ,
me pas entrusted by Lr. sacar bana iPS op the a lest daienue attorney, — ‘ ' |
: Pith Coaeniag the aciden lsncasce to ffagy koe » the Toureypaar old Lo 4
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i article lathe yor -tiidtant, organ of the ociaiiat orcers' Carty in” it
pit Hea York, oatitlid “ctalintern Seéay to -~abrace chlang faleghek as ; <
ee Cfler Fed uRay dn hetura for Sesurreetion of the oLsa: trous 1y47 Zlece? :
& itis dolieved thet 4.0. later Joined the icurts international, orsenteed fou be .
7 by Troboky oubsequant to the lattor's oxlls fron iusalas | ’ 4 foot _ 8
6. Curing ‘orld ar (1 Toss). ease ear correspon seat For Sopswects ! ;
in cnina. In duly 1923 he “a9 refuses entry inte “hina by vAlnaoe i
. Maldohaliet outhoritles, preauaatny as a result of antdevattonaiias : i
“articles apltben by Geass for epanzat, |
9. harold vebert Taco Ls curraitly ipselal featura. Sgitor for Nez gn get, we GG
© LS2 best 4and street, Hew York, Heo Yorks #6 4g tha outro of eaveral | 2b
_ boo.s, dneluting ka iegea In agha aad Tae “ry ardp of the Snigess feyoloidca. i
Isancu" qurrant politleal belieio aré anken ta thia’ -zangy. :
; - Be showld ThaarS deave teto country, this irancy sould apnreaiete ising 7
pee N ecvised of Le intoniiat destination, dete of denarture and any other ©
oth 5 ody perbinent tetetio. :
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o. CvALUATION

Shanchst Minicipal Peldve Files,

. &rerican Gitizesns Suspected” of Commie
Comnections.

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“Rarold * ‘obert. Isaacs was born in New Ys rk City on “3 Sept. 1910: and held

usa passport 177026. ‘He was the editor and Publisher of the China Forum” a Shanghat

Communist periodical first published in 1932: the secretary of the Nuolens

Defensa Comittee; a rember of the Shahghai branch of society of Friends of the

USSR and of China League for Civil Rights. He arrived in Shanghai from Manila

in Dec. L939 and worked for Shanghai Evebing Post and Mercury, awithing after

a few weeks to the China Press ehere he was sployed until.,931 (May). In June

Asn Tsaacs took a trip up the Yongtzs with ~ . Brank Glass, a Brigish Commnist

and suspected Third International agent. A Lankktone R letter whritten by Tsaace

to his fiance, Viola Robinson stated that he was ) burning : "Red" as a a result ot.

: conversations with GLASS. Ather atatens nts indicated athat Miss Ropirison an

a&rerican then in Germany, was an active member of the. communis Party. Isaacs used

the pseddonya of Lo Sen and published in’ the Mow Militants organ of. the New - York

Dist. borkers Party, an attack on Stalin entitled Stalintern Ryady to Embrace -

Chiang Kai shek. In 1949 Isaace was in the employ of the ?American magazine

NEWSOESK, New Tork City, ag epecial projects ‘editor. i

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“of between 16,000 arid 14,006 ecples.-

“than: tour coreent +f the total: Indo~

SUBJECT INTERV IG SETUREN MRe NAKOLD ISAACS,
MRe CU ATLES 3. TAY Uy, AND ER. DIAN, .

_ SOUNCES? ovr. 5 id ; correspondent ‘for: Kauswoo% macazine: °

parald Teanga,

Se. Cvactes Tacbi, Malaya born Tantl, forrorly enloyed
on Slnsapore. nevenapers,.newsaastor for. Slnzspore
radlc Ens) leneapoaking.a announcer on Bataviz Radto-
durins secupation, and presectly oditor of news: aper

Intasenient. _ ‘
ure Qlat, ailtor of Hecilaxa, nationallat nevepaper,. Hatavia.

a PALA TION: B-3, exeopt aa nected.

. The subject interview was neld at the request of : “YP, Teaacs’
in line with Kile Jesires to talk with leaiing ftrures of Indonesian
Nationaltat movement who held no official governmant poottion..

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direalation of HEROELA, Me ‘Dan replied
StA 48 the larzeat Inconegtas newanaper an

present It Is printed - anly in Jatavia, with
Of this number, |

' Asked about present

with ‘the following; Mh
the tetand of Java. At
& datly total elreulstion of about 18 7000 eoples.

 aprroxtzately 6,050 aonptes are aent cut of the alty by train to

leaving a jatevla elreulaticn.
Source exprosaet the ovinion ~

that while the Indonesian Population of Batavia te tn the nelstborhoad

of 500,000 persons, the literacy rate $s partars ealy. twenty Percent

of trie fivire. Tia, te adcitted, MEXDEEA te probably reacting lees
@#lar ponulettion of Hatavia, .

Batavia ts probahly tho zost litoraste area on

Bandeeng, Sooraxarta, and Jjskiazerta,

desrite the fact that ¢

"the islant of Java because of sorcentration where ‘of all the govern-~

hoe

aed

“with the potential realias population, aource replied

frontal funct rons, prevar sand Preaants.. :
‘When quest toned. as t> wy. Hie ciroulation | was 69 incoralstent
frat ho was

hLandleapoed by dsck of paver. <e expreased the oninian that a
elreulation af 57,005 would be assured, and a alrculation of as :t sh
as 106,000 posoible, were sutlTiclent napor avalintiee At the present
rate of or-ounption, ho estimates tat: autfletet parer laocn tang

trea Prevar stcok 8 to evitinue pabilontton of Vs A y, 3 wy) er
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_ Cn Desezter 7, 1945, the FENIRZA preas. coz-oncod rubligattion of
a@ dally Erelish lanzsuace newssaner. entitled TNOEPENDEET. Tho -

Maethoad cf thia parer states alas that tt lneorporates the INIONESIAY

REVS BULUSTIN, a Corser Rrelisr language newspaper miblished hy
ANTARA news ageroy. , ° ; .

The INDEFSNOT 1a at oresont béinz editod by ty. Tacbu, with
Some assistance from Mr. Dtah, and using tre paper-anz facilities

fhe Mrat Lasue of INDEPENDENT was reuarkable only for ite

--Bvoldanea of-sny dlaguoaton of looal affatra, only tvs articles.

having anythins wataoover to do with Java. “uestioned about this,

Tambu adeitted that, while hie ultizete an>bitlon waa t7 roaeh forelgn . -—

and troop-(aritiat) raacers, he wes hesitant avout entorine beadiong -
into: disouesion of local aftalte and the Zablonalist ened, heaausa,
(0-3), the 3ritish nro unfavoracly dlaposed towarda “SRUEXA already,
and would. use hie venture as an accuse to gun?lecate the antire © :
printing plant, were te too openly partisan in hls early lasues. _
Within a teek or twa.bho hobes to be secura sisugh in ile poaltion ta,
start laying sore otreesa on leeal news and oditcrials. -

The first tseue of THPEPENDET wad printed in 400 copies, moat

Of whiok’ wore given away, although tho state’ price te 1 Japanese

guilder tho copy.

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To: Lieutenant Colonel ROG A. PPAPP
From: John I, Coddington
“Subject: HAROLD ROBERT ISAACS

Mr. GEORGE N. KATES of 053;.F&k, has Just returned to the United. Stateo
: from. Chungking. He reached fash ington yesterday. He claims to have known .
+, HAROLD- ROBERT ISAACS quite woll in ) Chungking, dnd has the following observations
to, make concerning aire “ISAACS: ee ; 7 | a a
_ HARGLD ROBERT (ASAACS da about 35 years of age. He attended Columbia

ae

: University, and received the degres of A.B. there in 1930, He 1a the son of
, “an orthodox Jewish merchant , who is very wealthy, and. who. has always supported ~ . .

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HAROLD, even though he did net approve of the. radical views that’ HAROLD expreaced
in the 1930's, . ; re ae
HAROLD went to China immediately after graduation from Columbia, partiy, . 7

7 atleast, ‘out of a desire to gee strange parts of thee world and to experience ,
adventure." He went out by way. of. Hawaii, and stowed amay for part of the

. ‘voyage _ either between San Francisco end Honolulu, or between Hionoluls. and

oe Shanghai _ ur. KATES doea not Fomenber which, Anpeos, this. was part St the : |

ve -- oa hye “adventure.” . ; ;
In chins, HAROLD mat: a South African named FRANK ‘GLASS, who Was an ninteLlectual® _

a oo ow “and a very interest ng person. GLASS was a Leftist, but not at all a Communist.

ooceee-

HAROLD took: a’ trip up tha Yangtee with GLASS in 1930 of 1931, -At about this time,
7 HAROLD became a ‘corivert: to Trotokyisu, partly, at least, under GLASS 'g influence. :
‘He felt thet nguffering humanity required a "revolution" to set things straight.

- Communism was too organized, and RarOLD was a complete tndtvddudtet, and reactod
strongly against -the organizat lonei set-up or Communisn, and 8o ‘espoused Trotsky lea

= He returned to Shanghad frog the western part of China, and went to work for


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; ; Tis KAVAS News Agency, Shortly after this, in Shagghai, he rarried VIOLA ROBINSON,
oo E who. was, like EARCLD, a wide-eyed intallectual, This carrisce probably took place
. tn 1952. VIOLA was a great friend at Gu 75 SHEDLEY, the auther of the Sattle Hymn.
(ef of China and of other books dealing. with the Chinese Revoiution,
:: a an organization. called ‘the Ceina League for Civil Rights was formed about.
a 7 Oo 1932. YANG CHYIEN was the head of this for Central China, and Dr. HU SHIN (later
» Chinese Ambassador to Tash ington) was the head: of it for North China. YANG was at

“that tine Secrétary-General” of the Academia Sinica, YANG WS soon assassinated
os a by the Blue Shirts (at that. time CELANG KAT-SHEKtg bodyguard). HAROLD Isaacs had
‘been | an enthusiastic: nember of the Chins League for: Civil Rights, and in the ,

: _ “atmosphere of turmoil,” after: the killing of YANG, when all Leftists were under
attack by the Kuomintang, BAPOLD becazs the editor and publisher of the China forum, _
a magazine thst published a number ‘of controversial articles, The mgaazine was 7
“protected by the fact that the editor was an Anerican, and therefore had extra-
territorial rights. Yet the maga aine was ‘regirded asa “thorn in the flesh" by Me, ©
-CUNNIDGHAM, who was at that tine Amrican Consul General in Shanghai. There were

- various controversies o~ the printing shop was broken up by Kuomintang strong-arm

: 7 oa men} the mils were refused to the sagasinos but he continued pub)ication for some
oe oe ee mee ” tim, and smegled the copies out to. the  subseribers.

: In 1933. or.1934, ISAACS had & fight with AGNES SMEDLEY. qt was an ideological
fight, and therefore especially bitter. ISAACS and his wife left Shanghas. after

‘

this,. and noved ‘to Peking. Thera he acquired a Chinese translator ramed LIV, and

there he Settled dow to’ write his beek, The “Tragday of the Chinese Revoliition, | ~

_ This book nails the Stalinists to the mast” and shows that they wera messing.
around with | a situation in China which they did not understand. Very many people

' : who have read the book consider it excellent.

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The book was completed, and ISAACS and his wife returned to the United States
_ about Apri or May 1935, Immediately after this ,. ISAACS mde a papid trip ‘to
0810; Normay,, to see his hero, LON TROTSKY, who was Jiving there at that time,
Tt. was on this ocedsion that he must have undertaken to translate TROTSKY' a book,
) Mhither France 2 ISAACS then returned to New York, and vent to work for the.
;  HavAS News Agency once tore, Poke So ee oo
hes sone time in the late 1930's, he ‘became oa in New York politics,
and he worked hard for NORMAN THOMAS. 7

: . — . By 1940, however, ho became disgusted with New York politics, and became
interested in the war, and in"bourgeois life." He and his wife had a baby at

; ‘ about : ‘this tine (their first), and ISAACS found he could write radio scripts and
1 get good money for then, - Up to 1940, he had been Living chiefly off his father,

but from 1940 on, he began to mke money. In 1942, he did a “Report. to the Nations
for cbs, —— a

 Séen after this, ha Joined tha Staff of News-tieek, and in 1 194% was sent to Onnging

. by that a gazine, There. must, have been a certain amount: of trouble in. ‘eonvineing
the Chinese Central: Covernieit that ISAACS had’ really charged since the old days:
in Shanghai; but this convication was evideritly accomplished, or ISAACS would not

. . have received permission ‘from the Chinese Covernment to go to China,

Ishacs de a. very. smart ran indesd. He knows a lot: about. China, and he knows a a

lot about people in general, Moreover; he is a’gréat deal ‘smother and more

diplamtie now than ha was ten years ago, ; - a se oO 2

eS dyzakam Bho. auth eee

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fo: Lieutenant Colonel ROG:R A. PFAFF-
From: — John I. Coddington 9) .
Subject: HAROLD ROBERT. ISAACS
_ “BAROLO ROBERT ISAACS is now the correspondent of Newsweek magazine in
China. His headquartérs are in Chiungking, but he evidently travels to Kunning,
Kweiyang, and other places “in the course of his duties. He seems to have ccrived
in’China “in his present ‘Capacity. during ‘the Sumer of aad) probably in July, _
_ Subject was born: in 1910, and is a mamber of a wealthy family. He becane ,
Wei t oa firmly convinced Trotskyist: in his youth, and remained one till the tine of

. _ , PearlHarbor,. He is now regarded a9 a renegade by his former Trotskyist colleagues ,
because he has disavowed the principles of world revolution, turned away from
Trotsky's teachings, and since 1939 has’ been writing ratriotic propaganda for the
United States Government... 7 _

P He wert to China about 1930, and Wrote two books dealing with Chinese-

hoe ; politics, Fire Years of Kuomintang Reaction (1932), » and The Tragedy of the Chinese

Revolution (1938). Both of these volumes expressed the author's Trotskyist

‘point of view. The first was published in Shanghal ,. and tho second in London, -
Neither was ever published in the United States » and ISAACS said that the

Stalinist Cosmanists were 80 powerful in this” country that they were able-to |
prevent the publication of the Tragedy of ‘the Chinese Revolution here. This
book received high Praise from many sorious students of ‘Far Eastern : affairs, oa
inéluding G: Pe Hudson, Fellow of An. Souls College at oxford, and author of
The Far. East ‘in World Politics, who’ said that ISAACS? book waa the test one ever

written on the Chinese Revolution, Hudson is now an official of ‘the British

reece aera enemies ee he

Ministry of Information.
ISAACS non-Communist and non-Trotakyist friends say that even during the

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height of. his Trotskyist career, “ISAACS never accepted ‘money from the group, He

“was always open and above-board, and never ongaged in any conspiracies to overthrow

established government, “He was attracted to the movement, thay ‘say, by sheer | :
idealism. ee - —

: of the New York Tines, who was then the managing editor of the China: Press. ISAACS -:
returned to the United States. in the Jate 1930's, and was for a tine enployed by
the havas Newa Agency, until the fall of France in 1940. In 1943, he wag employed |:

-by Newaweek m gaxine. in: Washington, D.C., and resided at 4938 Newport Avonue,

Freiddship Heights, con ees mee

' Publications a a . _
(a) Books: re ee
‘> Five Years of kKuomint Reaction (Shanghai, China Forum Fublishing Co, > co - : .
a 1932), 136 pp. "Library at Congress Call Now: DS TTT AT CAS 7 Poe
the Tragedy or the Chinese Revolution (London, Secker & Warburg, 1938) Se
a : “501 pp, ary of ongress: i Now: Ds 774.17 on a .

a (b) Translations

ne Por Trotekit (Leon Trotsky); thither France, translated by John G. Wright
Lo and Harold R, Isaacs, (New York, Pioneer Publishérs, 1936). Library of

Congress Call No.: DC 398.77

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: (0) Articles in Periodicals J, . .
"Perspectives of the Chinese Revolution: a Marxist View," Pacific Affairs,
. : Vols 85 Pp. 269-283, Sept. 1935, LO EE -
Pay by Exports," Newsweek, Po Wy 7 Hig. Ihe a _ a
"Surprising the Japs," Newsweak, PP. 35-36, 7 Aug. 19th.
. - "Blowing the Top," Newsweek, pp. 45-6, 4 Sept. 1944.
: mast night in Kweilin," Newsweek, pp. 31-32, 25 Sept. 19L4.

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"One Man's Fight against Corruption: the Story behind. the Stilwell Incident, 0

Newsweek, p. Ak, V3 Nev. 19h
“Trouper “of the CBI," Newsuvek, p. 200,13 Nov. 19bb

"Ignorant Man and Modern Wespons:. Insido Story of the Chinese Ariy," lowaweoek,
pe LA, 2 ‘Nov. 1944 i : . : . :

"Death for Rweiyang," Newsweek, pi 36, 18 Dec. 1944

"Dorn of the Salveen," Newsweek, PP. 2-27, 1 Jan. 18

; "Firet ‘Truck to Kunaing, " Newswsek, Pe 3h, 2 Jan. 1945 ;
efing Hat Shouts of Welcome net Pinot ‘Gonvoy to Running, " tensiosi, pp. 35-36,

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a ith the Chinese Communist party hue com to ‘afr end ‘and: - a, Bog
“the Ching Forun mich I. founded ana edited during that - time. ot a
hao beon forced to suspend publication. in the Interest |
.of our whole movement as wall ad tn-ay personal ‘interest,
“I consider it. neoosssary to record here and ‘publish: the
higstory-of: the. Oitne Yorus and tae eiroumstances of ite
“suepenston. soe. an .

. Prom almeet the vory bagtanicg of my ective wotke ay ——
wnich I date from the time I bean reporting events in : ee
Cnina. in'a communist way - a nunvar of queations presanted
thenselves to me in increasingly forcible fors, These
urose originally from.my discovery of tho groes distortions
- -- and exaggerations witch I. found to be charaocteriatic ef.

-—-- ~- communis. propazanda in-China and abroud. I define pro-
paganda af the ekillful, clear, accurate and wholly truthful
reporting of the facts Linked to an dncisiva, pursasive .
intorpretation and a plan of action for dealing with the
facta in a revulutionury way. I leamed. this from the life a
“and work of Lenin and hia Bolosc7i% comradea who taught ~ : . Poo
ue that’ the trith cones from the masaca theucelvea- aad that _ ft
only disaster can result from tellin them lies, JI have
never learned to the contrury tnat it was my revolutionary .
' duty:-to work in any other way, altnough I soon found tat .
the prasent- day. Communiot party preos. makes a practiao of — : .
diatingui sh ing between propuganda and truth, | 1 :
Bxamplea of exaggeration ani_distortion most e'riking.
to me were naturally thosé which: applied to China, because
here I. could check allegations. with known facta...I first .
. wrote, these down to the ‘ignorance or ‘incapacity of indg-

- : : .  Widuala. 1 -felt that opamunist editors usmed xeule *'
woe a : . publich accurate facts about Crina 1% they could get then. _
_hccordingly with a ‘friend I triét to set up an incepencent . °

atl news service. and sent weekly ‘bulletina to papers all. -
over the world giving brief, eharp, factual. Accounts of —
what waa going on. This wao in the fall.of 1921 after my |
return from the area cf the great Central China fleode of
. that summer, J scarcely underutcod then why thie service
aa — failed to aecure any response from the communist prese, :
abroad, After about three monthe I. kad. tc suspend it for
lack cf support, It aimply. aiont't get published axcept ~~
. dn a few orgine whith were rot official Communist party .
: papers, . inclucing.the New York Militant, — - nO,
It wasn't long before I began to perceive, with a * :
deeper etudy of irtorfational éventa and the hietary of . a
the Chinese revolution, that a consister.t thrend ran : is
through the diatortions and exaygeraticne wich I found ae
not cniy in. trief casual reporte of current events tut
in the solesm pronunciamentces made by delecates before
plenums cf the E.C.C.1, 1 diecovered that Uieae cenarturea
from the truth were mace noceteery by the official prezisa
that over since.the catnatropie of 1927 a Gighty, upeur-
ging revoluticnary coverent Las been marc.ing foresrd in
China te the vory brink of asizure of power under the
leaderorip of tha Ciinese Communist party. I disccvered
thot these exagceraticno were necessary cecnuse the prezise
wae frlee and along with 10 all the taaic tenete cf the

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‘and the Comnuniut party in China. T cannot basin here
to give a ounairy of sone of tiiess disturti ono (whic

I vervally cated to you by the dozen), ranging from
particular incidents (the e1ifully false picture givon’
of tae wtton mill otriko in Shanshal in January 1932,

“dian. to the point of trans.oaing 1t to February to

“heighten . the thpreagion given of the workers’ role in
the Shanghal war) to higheflown generalizations like
-the atatencnt recently mide before tie »lenuy of the
E.C.c.3, that the C.C,P, hao “won over the m jority
of the Chinese working colada and the peusantry".. see
In dénying the presenos of 4 mignt revolutionary

uppurge (i.6., & vaot vnianized march toward tne sel-
zure of. power); I respoot facts made atill clourer |
perhaps when compared to the factea and figuros of the
monster masa movezents of the 1925-27 period. . The
tragic errors of the communist leaderonip in 1927. were
primarily resyonsiblo for.the decapitation of that -
.@rexut movement and becauso no leseons have deen draw
fron these events ta thio vory day, thesa errura, .
monstrously, accumulated, are atill responuivie for the
tragedies of ‘today. But for the purpuaus of our come

rieon haré, let ug taka for exaadle the single fact)
that in 1926 in: Greater Shanghai thers sere 257 atrikes.
In 1932 ‘there were 62, Let ue renenber thut on tne eve:
of the workers! adizura of power in Shanghai in March,

1927,,: there Were gore tann 800,000 sorkera, handicrafta- ,

wen and patty traders out on the streeta fignting wi th
arme in hands ‘for demands of a far-reaching political
Charactey, A Close chook for the entire country in
the latter half ‘of 1933 shows mo that lesa than one-
thirtieth of that nunbor were engaged in strikes and
other disputes ‘during any givon month und that almost
invariably the démanda wore defensive demands agninet
‘waga Qutg and-ld6ckouta,. Moreover, tue Lack af cohee
siva leadership ¢ often in departzents of the same.
factory or in ong ov more of a group‘ of factoriea =<

or gven eamtimes lack of @van tne ost elon@ntary
organ i zation + has in almost avery caeé led to deudening
fariure. and ralativoely easy batrayal by the yellow

labor ‘leadera® and “medintora® of tha Kuo Min Tang, In

19 the ehos ting’ of thirteon atudente ty Britiah
police in Sharghat was tho touch-off. for a general
Strike shich paralyzed. tno city und sich wae seconded ©
by vaat sympathy ‘gtrikeo which broke lize’ a series of
tidal wavay ovar the entire sountry., In Janwiry 1932,

‘when the ‘Japanese: imperialists uged the Shanghat

Internati onal: ‘Battlement ae a base for operations -
whioh cdgt the lives of. tana of thousinds of Chinese,
not a singls otrike interrupted ‘the normal course of -
the public: or other services in’ that. settlement,. In.
the. factories. there wera no atri kes but.a large scala
lockout to which ‘the overwhelming majority of Shan chat "9
workera éubaittod without Protesteese

In. the onee of the widespread. but teolated and
individual oaees of peasant uprisinge, and this includes
the Red ‘arnieo in Kiangol, those etrucglus await the
leadership of a strong working clase tovenent before
they can have a succeasfuh.tseug. Tne Red arnies in
tneir reotricted and surrounded areas and wita their
maagré resources havo fought heroically against the
Kuomintang attacks upon tnea, But.until tha Kuo Nin
Tang la shakaa froa ite bulwarka in the Smpertalist-
dontrolled working clase centers, their prospect
of revolutionary triumph remiine necosourily din,
Ho revolutionary purpose is sorved by taking refuge
tn the fictfon: that thebe ar2ieg hare prolotarian
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loadere of eupericr quality and courage, have vcen torn
from their factoriée A-d fren trair fellow weorrere and
pent. com te occupy koy positiona in the Ked army ais~
tricte and tn the Hed armies themselves, Induvu, thie ~.
common practise: of extracting the most conscivus and pro-
wreevaive working claea elements from their vorzing clase.
ervironrent and sending then domn te the Hed diotriots 16
a.gocd irdex to the criminal transposition uf emphasise
Which has helped paralyze tne working claes movement in

_the.cities. Ifthe Shite Terrot doson't. carry off the .

workerat leadere as. they ariee, the C.P, ¢oee and bae

-, @ené ao in hundreds of csses. This helps in no amalt
part to explain why: it-has-aleo been impossible to mobi-
--lize-a genuine mass anti-Japanese movement in thea face of

military aggreeaicn and why the Shite Terror of the Kuo |

' Min Tang has succeeded, by: filling mase gruvco and ine

humerable prisona sith the martyred dead and living, ia
downing the anti-imperialist move-unt or efforty tcward -
the organization of such a movement and paving the. way

for the ever-increazing chorcachnents of the imperialists.

- Phe party hag net vet gripped and dtrasted th2 dang usd

bitter and often inarticulate hatred of the masece of
the people for thelr oppressvore and thiga includes large
sections of the Lower petty buurgeoleie who could be won

“by successful nase pressure from o¢élow. Thies io becuuse
-thép party hae fuiled to translutgtha realities of every-

day events inty its program and tacticB..e.
. Tot , RX XXX
But precicely ‘becnuse ut all coats I desired to
carry on the For.un's open struggle againct the cormon
onamy - agsinat thé Kuo Min Tang ant the imperialiete -
I oeduloualy avoided bringing these lesue inte the
colums of the paper, increasingly againet my vetter
judgment. “I leaned over far backward in tnis respect,
Tria expressed itself in many of the current jeeueu with
which we had to deal, : a . . o
Iusk you to recall the whole uphill fivht which the
Forum waged on behalf of Paul and Gerturd Ruegg: in. the .
oprirg and summer of 1952 curing which time I repentedly
warned agairet the emphasis which was betng placed on the ~

"  #legal" aapécte of the case and the "nayotiations” with,
‘~ tha Kuo "Min ‘Tang to the detriment of mane preasure and.

the capitalization of tho caze for political purpceea,

You paic lip service to the need for mass creeaure -

particularly here in China - but in fact the "legarities®.
and futile nagotiations remaired the major pillars of

thie defensa. Until in the very end I finally rebelled,
'J- Wasn't even permitted to. give Ruegg his honorable and
rdghtful title - secretary of the Pan-Pacific Trade Union
Secretariat! Yet although I felt the etruggle for the
“ Rueggs was being seri.usly handicapped by the tactica

being. pursued,. I ‘carried on the fignt with all the snergy
at my command and you will recall that it was I wno created
the local defense’ committee and was chiefly reeronsibie .
for the widespread prees propagands camsaien ord the

-consideratle sympathy wnich we. aroused. Yet the etrietly

non-political attitude which Ruegs was forced tc avaume

‘at “the trial (in contrast ‘to the highly political attitude

of hie prosecutoro!) mua in my opinicn one ef the major
reasons for the fate to which he-and his wife were cundemned,
. I aok you to redall the wiole period of the organi-
gation and activities of the Cuina League for Civil Rights,
from Decémter 1932 te June 1933, in wnich I tock an active.
part. .1 gave full play to thte hybrid League are its

work without once publiehirg tho beste criticiems enich

I often voiced to you and wuioh in the end were wholly
confimred by what happened after tho Kuo Min'Tang murdered
Yang Coler. in June that year, I ask you to recall the

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subjeot of the *Anti-@ar Cong reese’ which at- your
' spectfic rejueat I.did not publish.  Inateud, te my
‘Fogret, I published the foul rot of Marley & Co.
without freely giving play to the true facts. atout
that farcieal. junket which had convinced me that the
Policies which gave it birth do not one single whit

advance the’ international etrugie againat imperialist. -

ae rE ay . On ‘ond octaston - and this at least I can take |
: i . Low comfort in - I passively resietef when you requested |
_me to write and publish a-slanderous attack on Chen
. Du Heiu when he was cunderned*to 123 years imprisainent
3 by the Kuo Min Tang.’ Your request wae specific. I
was not: to d@al with the isedes wich had brought

to being leader of the Chinese Opposition in.1935,. 1
Was only to atring together a vile series of labels
in an effort .to explain wiy the Kuo Liin Tang. even
‘Amprlegnec the leader of the left Opporiticn, As
pe you know, that attack was naver written or published.

a me, . — . Again in Decenter 1933, upon my return from :

, : Fukien, you.specifically demnded that I cet -asice -

the resulta of my own personal inventigations. in toe

ee, Foochow in-order to write on your behalf (but over

20 .. my, signature!) an utterly baselossand slanderous

| @ttack on the'Left Cpposition, You will recall that

. you charged at that time that the "Trotekyiete” were

. : , Frominently identified with the new govemmont set.

eed et up in Fukien by Chen Wing-shu and Teal Ting-kai. You

sD lumped the Left Opposition with the Third Party and

— / the sogalled Social Democrats among the petty bourgecis

we Me . so satellites of tha Pukien militariste, It was as much
, : na , ‘to satisfy myself on this very point as to perform a -

fF ‘+ " * migaion for you, that I went cown to Poochow and
apent two. weeks there and learned thzuugh direct. con-

" tact with dozens of people prominently concemiéed that
the. Left Cppositién was stoutly and cleurly opposed:
to the Foochow regina. I hayen't place here to dis-

~ @uda.the relations of. the C.P,.to the mcort-Llived -
-Pukien governzent or the character of. the "negotia-

thing here is that on zy return you demanded that. I
write slarders which flew in the face of everything
-I mysalf bad learned. It 18 intercsting, as a side~
“Light on your methods in factional atrife as you
conceive it, that your representative in Foochow sent
“back @ report, through né, ironitally enough, that
_one of the ‘most prominent cf the youthful peeudo~
|, ‘vadicals in Foochow, fa Cui-yuen t ‘be exact, was a

: leading “Trotekyiat*, It eo happened that I had mt
and had several longthy interviews with #1 and-by -
the time I left Foochow 3 understood nis pcaltion and
his peraonality exceedingly well, He was as much a
Trotekyist a6 Mel Lan-fang is! Yet you actually
dexanded that I ignore my own mowledge cof the man
and in ay article on Fukien set him down ag a
"Trotekyist®. .I was faced on the one nand by your
demande that I-write falsehoods to suit your policies
and on the. other by ny deep desire to set fort. the
actual facts about tha Opposition's attitude toward
the Fukien regime. But once more, to preserve the
ehrece of our relationship, 1 drove a middle ccuree
and did neither, leavirg tho thele question out of

. my article, :

Chen Du Hoiu from being the. leader of theC.P.. in. 1927:
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. Nevorthaless. obdruntly in Januery..f this year you

farced an ultinatus Uron Zé and oubseysny forced the

brouk in our relstionekip becauso ! Could not and weuld

not, at your denand, dovoite the China Porum tc policies

which I could not and do fot. believe computivle with the

intereote of thd Chinese rewlution and the international -

proletarian revelution. I coula nut, at your dennd, re .
get agide the convictions to which I nad literally been ‘ : : ;
@riven by the stinging lash of eatastrephic events in

ty and ithe world over. Parti Cyiarly my deep

intereet in Chinese eventea during the last three years.

Made ‘it im.osatble for me, finally, to ive active eup-

port to policies and tactics Shove disastrouo effecte —— woe ee ae

ore being a thousandfold confirmed for re by the tragto
events of every pwi(tly-passing days I could net ignore - -
Questions which strike at the roots of our work &nd the | .
Whole structure of our hopes for a revolutionary future, .
Despite the fact that these queations are rocking.
onal teday, you deniéd my risht to

the entire Interns:
raise thom in print, : You demanded More. You derianded

/. that I attack anybody who cid a0 ~ primarily tre pe-vle

ee

you call "sounter-revolutionary Trotckyists™ - the, only
Pecpla wo are facing these problems today tna fearless,
Tevolutionary way ! You dersnded that the China Forum :
become a steraotyre for the policies and vulgar factional
Slandere which I could neither then ‘nor now be party -to,
In reply to my questions on, Ciind you dimply quoted ba ck

‘at'me the Lica and half-ites I've been go used to reading

in Impréecorr, You éven declared: 4¥or propaganda purposee

“@ certain ‘amount of éxaggération is nocédsary.,..* and

went, on amzingly toiday: "but We know tha tire facta |
and we base our folicies on them, not on Koae exaggera-

|. tlone!" a noy slant on zodern-day C.2, ‘tactical, Facts,
x

‘thing like a dizatiy’ turning top of fanoy - or at bast -

you say;are durious things. ‘They have to be tumed. «-

around’ and around ard arcund, and éxaminad Closely until

their true nuture baconés apparent. The trouble ie you. . Se

turn. them ao far! ahd’ a0 Quickly that they turn into somes

‘wiéh-fulfi11ing-miaré presentational

To: mY Guesti-one oa Germany youl quotéd Heokert, |
Plathiteky and the B.C.C.1."3 famous Fedolution declar
ing that the. .collapeg of the German party and the slsughter —
of the German workera were based on the past, present’ and
future correct policigs of the C,P,G.! You declared Thad’.
bo right to offer critical coment on the ddngen uely

.opportuniatic foreign and domestic policies of the ULS.S.R.

mcat notably on the entry of the U.S,S.R, on a ‘straight

; nationalist basta into the diesusting corridors of ‘im-

perialiet intrigue, To the contri fy, I was livingly,

@ioieter in’ China! Gercany and elsawhere and are rapidly:

leaging the U.S.S:R, inte the vacuum of nati nalist—
leolation fron tke torld-wide prolétarian movement! Tnie
T was. to do; to begin with, by publishing Stalin's ‘face.
on the front page end columns of the customary penegyricgs
to hia infallibility, ‘Avove all and before'all, I Waa

to take up cucgele against *counter-revolutionary

. Trotdkydem®, That was to ba the main point of my re-

formation = to raise no Guostiona myself and slander any-

_ body elae who did 00.4 .

In reply to your demand that I submit to om edi torial

board in order that these editurial policies should be

effectively put into practise, 1 offered (1} to continue
publication strictly aa cefore, meanwhile arguing out

differences with you ip disousa:ono on ths ide: (2) to
throw the colume cf the Forum open to a eeneral discussion

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of all basic revoluticnary yuactions, mt. free play to
unorthodox ag well aa orthucox tiews, If your views . : a
were correct, I urgued,“it would te « dintinct adven- . *
tuge to you to have euch an o:portunity to diaplay weir
brilliance alongoice the puny efforte of your critica;
(3) to pudlien orthodox fews and viexs but to reserve
for myself the right to coment. and.criticise. .
These repeated offers you repeutedly, refused. You . — : : '
offeree to diccuss these Quéationo sith ze vervally if a -
lin the meanwhile I threw the Porur gpen to yuur edt torial .
board. My other: propocals were uinthinkesle! Give ‘thé
Fofum'a- readers a chunce to hear "counter- -revelutionary®
- viewpointe 7? Never that { I could ‘only Abopley my
_ , revolutionary. parity b acceding to your demnds. |
“would” talk: things over. until apring,. zen 1f all went
well (1.0, 1f I showed a sutlefactory adaptation to a
> your wiewpuint), Io could paéck up for an cdacational trip -
to the Sovict Union there I would certainly vecccme cone
“-wineed of the error of my waya. In other aords,; vou wanted
my signature on a promissory note with’ the ascunt left
we . vlank for you to fill in.. You put thia in the form of
. Se an ultimatum and you told me that if 1 did anything but
accopt I would fortawith enter the com p of the “cqunter-
revolution’,
I had to refuse these teran. 1. had to refuve to
lend myself to a alandertus and baseless atraryle againet—
the International Left Cpposition., I-had to.refure to
land space to the nauseatingly fawning praise of Stalin
and uncritical reception of Staliniet polictces which
Characterize the Communist sarty preva tre worlé over,
Thad to refuse to take ghel ter in the cold and ¢raughty
empty epacea which atratch benind the lapreseive facade . :
and early traditions of ‘the Communist International . rT , . J
would like to go to the Soviet Union. for a visit cne day--
but I nad to: refuse -your- offer on your ‘terus.. I nad to | - coe
refuse,:in ghort, to become a hack prostitute in the name ~ ¢
of tho "revolution.. : : . ;
-. In the end, ta0, 1 had to refuse to turn over to . : oe eee
oa St a you the. printing plant Phad bEiLt up Mth oo much palm 7
utr . " "" and struggle beoausa I considered it not your prv,erty - .,
but the property of tha working-class :covument.: Because Loe
. : 7 TI eould not carry ori “tha Porun syself, for ‘lack of. ~ ee
' = . To, financial resourcea and edciuse of heavy debts contracted, an : Soe
‘ - : ; I disposed of the plunt and turned every farthing of the wy : we US es
. .t . . prooseCs ove~ to wnere | now consider the tage intorests -
° Se . of our movement lie. It was with a deep and doiding,
—- , bitterngss that I had to seq the Porun ce down under the
. blows of. those wom I hed considered conrad4s;, when for-

- . . . a _ two yeare it had fougat off all ‘ite many enonles on ‘the

- . ce . outaide, : _ Ct
- : ce, Yet.with it camd the realization taat ¥e-have to | re
build anow over the ruina you have wrought, The revo- . ' ‘ , .
lution and the building. of our future moves forsard and: . ae ae
when we trample down.the defensee of our enesieo wa shall i eo
crush underfoot everytnins and everybody that stunde in
our way. No sycophantica, dlind allegiance to a name,
an empty facade, « tom and shredded oreatige can lead
us forward, Only unbwurving fidelity to our gual and

“activa strusgla towamd thia end with the weapons of a

: . correct and teatad political line will Lift au fron

° : oo defeat to ultimate eitotory, Po taia atrisgle I ohall con-

: tinue to dadicata all ay energies, : —

Peipins; China, May 20, 1934.
Raroid R, ISAACS,

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blach wavy hair: brus? ed back, Born in YC, Ake cits. nen. Editor & publisher of the: ot oe
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_ Arrived in China fron Mar.tTe ‘on 10 Deg 30°& Jotnea editorial staff of Shanchai Evening © | | —
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Je In Asia? ISAACS, pub in 1947 by the Institute of Pacific “clations es a | moo
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*rive Tears of Lvevinteng Reaction, @ 2M pare pemhles.sebliched in 1932 ob trpThSS
SPanghas, Liste subject os editor. The pampalat coasie’s of reprints of ertiolss 13 dass RB
{ Such appeared io the “Chine Farae ty Sancrroous esthore end oollaberstore?s ; 7.
Tee pesphist Gancunces the kvomictafg and CRLASD Kel~oheh for alliged amssecre :
Of itp poli:tcal epponente, ehiefly Coeramista, in order “that the bourgeoisie
might conticns to role ard the inpartaliste to druw their tribute free te |
: Capitalisation of tem misery*, Sebjoct corctiguss to reside al 33) Canirel
Park: Vest, 26 19 employed.cs a free lance jourmalist. 500 ref. dco, (11),

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in Creat Iritaia, isrued in. reviced edition 1751 ty Ctanford Cait, Press,  DFE2IIN
Thesis of Book is that revolation ia Chins, 1$iS.1977, could Neve wueutted ia 0 dag 53

@ devocratiq socialist state, bul ves permeried to serve the needs of :nestan

Ey Sonht 4 1A revsred edition @ubsect elated his opinions nave erenreé ip intern
wating and tral tre tase of Als com can te ceecriiead as Sdeperile eoctalirt.
fee doe. tn (§ 4701-165), : ——_

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TOS AL aug Perweted active re ber Of wo aa J: A160 re;orted
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tourtry elnre 1917. how (rea 49) Special Peatares eiitor for tewvepet
om unist preee in X's and early M's ervte a bitier and triiltant

ow rection ef the Ohiness Com oniet Farty from )7)b-28 {D4 Teraey.
Loncce, 1937) trea a Tretexyile visepsiat, how aleias be

ened sith the camurist savemcd (Stalin er Towtaay Drench). Lives

Crbrted on BaP suspect Het of Prreien acentas wee B-U1L Lo

Dept. name “check eco nara to
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4 Yor cormectton with Hilatre RULAAS, ves, ant the 11 rd Latemetional, Agnes cael Lint, ef a,
Ef #0 following filees aw ahi. — J.» 3 anys E ‘ .
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tft —— —- cio: mt oo
i BE, “yevpared 23 Aacest Af, oehJ.0 Corl) Frank GAbd, was, 10 decsior: Fal
4 “ ;
4

jutror ot ™ Tragedy of the Citness Sevolotion® ato borrts Le APPiLAw dqv). : .
EN ES UES (ae) Sn Sraratat. Belterea to te forelan sormrepeeeed, for “Heke
CCP pepwr Of enich AFFized Later me 16 Beecce etbor, See Ee anes

Patrick 4, MUUAZY advised Cat subject tala a! D : i F :
Trotthyile Communit, See rete ae ay Erierinte taal PAMDAZES (qe) DYO-2 1046

seis tr Ses stra FF tes ieantened 1547, eammmriseds toa vot.
ne FO. : : :
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dos.

aning § f
Ana later. Subj» supplise « brief saiterial imenceets *
(2 apparently meo-political tn nature. Bis article #4. 2 tO thee Laxts which

"Bm aptiote by ISAACD “the Dina!

froale of Ue Apericus bo
° te ceticc's in Ortent trad
ible for tee o” toraliterimien, In te “Seturday Revioe of Litersture® of
ABtE, 19458 reviewed *Jourmey to the fer Pewifie’ by Cove Thaves 6. DENTS)

Sub jot presentiy
“full Ulne' fosseren Aasveiate 1a tbe Center ‘Sree
Tastitete ef Teehnalagy, Cantritct, Baee, Sea]. ee act bare aevees te xy

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@rsoters G.0,P. UT Ebe

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Stated that Lin, Tacmeh!’ (291/L15/2759) was
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7 Fron colieTe ani hat cven een sect to Jail tecesse of BLS
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oa tietged book fer euerMe' ality <4 for Devc-menting only ailit clwiiong te
i | . Problere of Orient. See OFRI0DES dated 2 “Tenter 1855 fo +f (ore
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